A Requiem for Peacebuilding
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Writen byJorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Barbara Segaert - PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Year2021
• Relevance: The book critically examines the trajectory of peacebuilding and its adaptability, making it highly relevant to peace studies and international relations research. • Keywords: peacebuilding, liberal peace, local turn, international interventions, legitimacy, resilience, political transformation. • Subject Domains: peace studies, political science, conflict resolution, global governance, post-conflict reconstruction. • Strengths: o Provides a historical and theoretical analysis of peacebuilding’s evolution. o Critically engages with debates on the decline of peacebuilding. o Highlights localized peacebuilding approaches. • Potential Gaps: o May lack empirical case studies demonstrating peacebuilding adaptations. o The argument about the resilience of peacebuilding could be expanded with further comparative analysis.

