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Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) is a participatory problem structuring methodology grounded in Structured Dialogic Design Science. It was created to help diverse stakeholders co‐construct influence maps that reveal leverage points and support coordinated action.
Yiannis Laouris, Gerald Midgley
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A ‘Local’ Response to Peacebuilding Efforts in Timor-Leste [PDF]

, 2018
Many international agencies and donors that have implemented peacebuilding activities in a variety of countries and situations acknowledge, in theory, the importance of placing local communities at the center of peacebuilding activities.
1225, Tanaka, Yukako Sakabe
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Reflections on Peacebuilding Constructs in Seke District, Zimbabwe

SAGE Open, 2022
Since 2004, the formation of informal peace committees in Zimbabwe has signaled a change in the dynamics of local peace initiatives away from external elite top-down donor-driven interventions and toward a greater understanding of the potential of ...
Norman Chivasa
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

Liberal and Digital Peace-building: A Comparative Analysis

NUST Journal of International Peace and Stability
Patterns and trends keep changing with the commencement of each global political era, and peacebuilding is an evolving and continuous phenomenon.
Maria Saifuddin Effendi, Zulfiqar Ali
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina, Kynan Gentry, Kirsten Martinus   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious Peacebuilding : Friction in Global–Local Encounters

, 2013
How can we understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding? This special issue contributes to ongoing debates on the precariousness of peacebuilding, by introducing the term friction as a way to capture and ...
Höglund, Kristine,, Björkdahl, Annika,
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Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg, Zorzeta Bakaki, Jessica Di Salvatore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development

, 2018
"Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development engages with the possibilities and pitfalls of the increasingly popular notion of hybridity.

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