Publications and Works-in-Progress

Papers and reports are being prepared over the course of 2010. Please check this site again for updates.

Sustainable Outcomes in Afghanistan

Post-War Mediation in UN Peace Operations: The Role of the SRSGs

The following papers emerging will appear in the June 2010 issue of Global Governance journal:

  • Tim Sisk, The SRSGs and the Management of Civil Wars
  • Katia Papagianni, The SRSGs and Peacemaking: Lessons Learned
  • Marie-Joёlle Zahar, SRSG Mediation in Civil Wars: Revisiting the ‘Spoiler’ Debate
  • Cedric de Coning, Mediation and Peacebuilding: SRSGs and DSRSGs in Integrated Missions

NATO and the Challenge of Sustainable Peacebuilding

Project papers will appear in the Winter 2011 issue of Global Governance journal. 

The Future of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

Working papers appeared in January 2010, pending the publication of an edited book:

  • No. 1: Kwesi Aning and Ernest Lartey, Establishing the Future State of the Peacebuilding Commission: Perspectives on Africa
  • No. 2: Thomas Biersteker and Oliver Jütersonke, The Challenges of Institution Building: Prospects for the UN Peacebuilding Commission
  • No. 3: Cedric de Coning, Clarity, Coherence and Context: Three Priorities for Sustainable Peacebuilding
  • No. 4: Rob Jenkins, Re-engineering the UN Peacebuilding Architecture
  • No. 5: Carolyn McAskie, 2020 Vision. Visioning the Future of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture
  • No. 6: Erin McCandless, In Pursuit of Peacebuilding for Perpetual Peace: Where the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture Needs to Go
  • No. 7: Angelika Rettberg, The Private Sector, Peacebuilding, and Economic Recovery: A Challenge for the UN Peacebuilding Architecture
  • No. 8: Eli Stamnes, Values, Context and Hybridity: How Can the Insights from the Liberal Peace Critique Literature Be Brought to Bear on the Practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?
  • No. 9: Necla Tschirgi, Escaping Path Dependency: A Proposed Multi-Tiered Approach for the UN’s Peacebuilding Commission

Perspectives on Peacebuilding from the "Pivotal States"

Please check this website again in late 2010.

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For the results of the RPPS project (completed in 2008), please see Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (London: Routledge).