International peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems s

This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic

This book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume ha

This book provides analyses of international intervention in local conflicts including those in Cambodia, Somalia, Yugoslavia, the Western Balkans and Northern

Based on the swisspeace annual conference 2012, the publication examines the delicate balance between external interventions and locally-led initiatives. It add