Rethinking peacemaking Peace at all costs?

• Published in: Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding pp. 156 - 166
• Main Authors: Eriksson, Mikael, Kostić, Roland
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2013; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: conflict; Freds- och konfliktforskning; International relations; mediations; peace; Peace and Conflict Research; peace building; peacemaking; Political control & freedoms; WARFARE & DEFENCE; Machakos Protocol; Human Suffering; AFRC; Liberal Peacebuilding; Peacebuilding Interventions; Bonn Agreement; European Union Special Representative; Sudan People's Liberation Movement; DDR Process; UN; Transitional Justice; Primary Parties; South Sudan; Yugoslav Sovereignty; Martti Ahtisaari; Biased Mediator; Bosnian Serb; President Gbagbo; NATO Bombing; Blank Endorsement; Forces Nouvelles; De Paix; Peace Implementation Council; SPLM; NATO Intervention
• ISBN: 9780415638357; 0415638356
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203084052-9

Scholarly debate on the subject of international peacemaking and peacebuilding interventions in post-war societies has branched offin different directions in recent decades. After the Cold War, much of mainstream Western academia and the policy community endorsed the stipulation that internal conflict and state failure are best addressed by introducing a range of liberal practices and regulations into peace agreements. Building state capacity, the facilitation of democratic transformation, a market economy, the promotion of human rights, justice and good governance became the cornerstones of externally promoted conflict transformation.