Analysis
Regional Cooperation in the Great Lakes Region
Regional trade and energy projects were meant to knit the Great Lakes together. Cooperation survives war, but peace has to be designed in.
Publications: In-Depth Peacebuilding Reports
In-depth reports and long reads: the journal’s most substantial research-based analyses of peace processes and post-conflict recovery.
Analysis
Peacebuilding in Burundi and the Great Lakes
What the Arusha settlement, power-sharing and the 2015 crisis reveal about building peace in Burundi and the wider Great Lakes region.
Analysis
The Kosovo Statebuilding Conundrum
How do you build a state whose existence is contested? Research from 2009 found international intervention in Kosovo consolidating the fragilities it meant to cure.
Publications
Justice-Sensitive Security System Reform in the DRC
The DRC built its army and police from unvetted belligerents. Two decades of reform changed little, because impunity, not capacity, is the core problem.
Analysis
Pakistan: A State-Society Analysis
Why power in Pakistan runs through armies, landlords and kinship networks rather than formal institutions, and what that means for peacebuilding practice.
Gender & Peacebuilding
Gender and Peacebuilding: What the Evidence Shows
A decade after UNSCR 1325, field research from Burundi, Liberia and Nepal shows where gender-sensitive peacebuilding delivers and where it stalls.