Hanna Leonardsson

Location

Annedalsseminariet, room 419

Materials

See recommended reading.

Slides: 2023-04-19_Peacebuilding dilemmas.pdf

Description

The field of peacebuilding has been called out for being in crisis, or no longer building peace, but acting amidst violence or in a continuum of violence. This lecture takes stock on the current state of peacebuilding and where it might be going looking at current conflicts in the Middle East.

Teacher's Background

Hanna Leonardsson is a lecturer in global studies. Her research evolves around local peacebuilding, local governance and its interaction with national and international levels of governance as well as trans-scalar relationships of power.

Reading

Ramsbotham et al. chapter 7.

Zartman, I William (2001): “The Timing of Peace Initiatives: Hurting Stalemates and Ripe Moments” in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics 1 (1). (9 p.) At: www.ethnopolitics.org/ethnopolitics/archive/volume_I/issue_1/zartman.pdf

Zartman, I. W. (2009). Chapter 16. Conflict Resolution and Negotiation. In J. Bercovitch, V. A. Kremenyuk, & I. W. Zartman (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of conflict resolution (pp. 322 – 339). SAGE.

Crocker, C. A., Hampson, F. O., & Aall, P. (2009). Chapter 25. Why Mediation Matters: Ending Intractable Conflicts. In J. Bercovitch, V. A. Kremenyuk, & I. W. Zartman (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of conflict resolution (pp. 492 – 505). SAGE.

Wallensteen, Peter & Svensson, Isak, 2014, ‘Talking peace. International mediation in armed conflicts’, in Journal of Peace Research, March 1, 2014 51: 139-144.

De Vries, Maya & Maoz, Ifat, 2013, ‘Tracking for Peace: Assessing the effectiveness of Track Two Diplomacy in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict’, in Journal of Asymmetric Conflict, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 62-74.

Recommended Reading

Kühn, F. P. (2022). "Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 16(5): 527-535.

Öjendal, J., et al. (2021). "Introduction - Peacebuilding Amidst Violence." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15(3).