A Requiem for Peacebuilding? by Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, B... - 9783030564766

A Requiem for Peacebuilding?Author(s): Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Barbara Segaert\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783030564766, 978-3030564766\nSynopsis\nThis book assesses the claim that peacebuilding is a moribund international practice. Its contributors trace the origins of peacebuilding, bring back to memory its moments of triumph, and reflect on the reports of its decline. The story of peacebuilding parallels the broader story of liberalisms rise and fall in world politics, including the attempt to remedy an ailing patient by administering a magic medicine the local turn. Its contributors further write about what may come after peacebuilding as we still know it. They describe more locally rooted attempts at building peace and how they operate in the shadows of, and in an ambiguous relationship with, governmental and international peacebuilders. The book finally suggests that reports o.