Peacebuilding in Crisis: Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation - Paperback

by Tobias Debiel (Editor), Thomas Held (Editor), Ulrich Schneckener (Editor)

Written by leading experts, this volume brings together 'liberal' and 'post-liberal' approaches to peacebuilding. Besides challenging dominant peacebuilding paradigms, the book scrutinizes how far key concepts of post-liberal peacebuilding offer sound categories and new perspectives to reframe peacebuilding research. It thus moves beyond the 'liberal'-'post-liberal' divide and systematically integrates further perspectives (democratization research and political economy, conflict resolution, gender, comparative studies), paving the way for a new era in peacebuilding research which is theory-guided, but also substantiated in the empirical analysis of peacebuilding practices.

Author Biography

Tobias Debiel is Professor for International Relations and Development Policy, at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he is the Director of the Institute for Development and Peace as well as Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Germany.

Thomas Held is the Managing Director, German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) which was founded in 2000 to strengthen peace research in Germany.

Ulrich Schneckener is Professor of International Relations and Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Osnabrück, and Director of the University's Center for Democracy and Peace Research as well as Member of the Governing Board of the German Foundation for Peace Research, Germany.