Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding

<p>This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking looking at its theoretical assumptions empirical applications and its consequences. </p><p>Despite the wealth of research on external interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding many scholars tend to rely on findings in the so-called 'post-agreement' phase of interventions. As a result most mainstream peacebuilding literature pays limited or no attention to the linkages that exist between mediation practices in the negotiation phase and processes in the post-peace agreement phase of intervention. </p><p>By linking the motives and practices of interveners during negotiation and implementation phases into a more integrated theoretical framework this book makes a unique contribution to the on-going debate on the so-called Western ‘liberal’ models of peacebuilding. Drawing upon in-depth case-studies from various different regions of the world including Bosnia-Herzegovina Kosovo Afghanistan Sudan Ivory Coast Senegal and Sierra Leone this innovative volume examines a variety of political motives behind third party interventions thus challenging the very founding concept of mediation literature. </p><p>This book will of much interest to students of peacebuilding statebuilding peacemaking war and conflict studies security studies and IR in general.</p>