This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to sustain peace, how interactions between external and local actors have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and how adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study.
1 Introduction. Exploring Alternative Approaches to Peacebuilding - Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto.- 2 Adaptive Peacebuilding: Leveraging the Context-specific and Participatory Dimensions of Self-sustainable Peace - Cedric de Coning.- 3 How Can the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda Live Up to Its Potential? - Youssef Mahmoud.- 4 Experiencing Adaptive Actions Within a Complex Peacebuilding Framework: The Colombian Case - Lina Penagos.- 5 Adaptive Peacebuilding in Mozambique: Examples of Localized International Non-Governmental Organizations (L-INGOs) in a Complex and Uncertain Environment - Rui Saraiva.- 6 Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH): Impartiality and an Adaptive Peacebuilding Approach in Structural Asymmetry - Ryoji Tateyama.- 7 The Challenges and Effects of Externally Driven and Locally Driven Peacebuilding Approaches in a Complex Context: A Case Study of the Syrian Conflict - Ako Muto.- 8 Accommodating Incomplete DDR, Security Sector Development, andVeterans' Issues to Peacebuilding Efforts: National Responses, Suco, and Local Security in Timor-Leste - Yukako Tanaka-Sakabe.- 9 China's Peacebuilding in South Sudan: "Top-down" Adaptation and Its Effectiveness - Miwa Hirono.- 10 The Role of Adaptive Peacebuilding in Japan's Assistance of the Mindanao Peace Process in the Philippines - Miyoko Taniguchi.- 11 Conclusions. What Have We Learned About Adaptive Peacebuilding from Comparing Determined-Design with Context-Specific Peacebuilding Experiences? - Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto.
Cedric de Coning is Research Professor with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and Senior Advisor with the African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD).
Rui Saraiva is Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
Ako Muto is Executive Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
