Adaptive Peacebuilding: A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century

This open-access book addresses the need to improve conflict prevention and resolution through evidence-based research from eight case studies in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, considering China and Japan's perspectives and practices. It explores how peacebuilders design, implement, and evaluate programs, the impact of external and local actors, and adaptation to complexity and uncertainty.

Format: Hardback
Length: 321 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book responds to the urgent need to improve our methods for preventing and resolving conflict. Through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, it introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding. It also examines how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating programs to sustain peace, the interactions between external and local actors that have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and the ways in which adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study.

Adaptive Peacebuilding is a response to the pressing need to enhance our strategies for preventing and resolving conflict. Through comprehensive evidence-based research from eight case studies spanning Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, it presents Adaptive Peacebuilding. Moreover, it delves into how China and Japan perceive and implement peacebuilding practices. The book primarily revolves around exploring how peacebuilders conceive, execute, and assess programs aimed at sustaining peace, examining the dynamics between external and local actors that have either facilitated or impeded peacemaking processes, and examining the diverse approaches to adaptation to complexity and uncertainty in each case study.

Weight: 585g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031182181
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023