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The Future of UN Peace Operations: Pragmatism, Pluralism, or Statism?

Published in International Affairs , September 2024 Abstract: Although United Nations peace operations have played an important conflict...

The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond

Published in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (2023)

Peacebuilding

In Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Dawes, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the United Nations, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Canada and Peacekeeping: Two Misconceptions

We do not yet know where, when and how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will deliver on his commitment to increase Canada's involvement in...

The Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and the Responsibility to Protect

In Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne, eds., Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 509-52.

The Greatest Risk to UN Peace Operations

CIPS Blog The greatest risk to United Nations peace operations is not operational failure, but the growing divergence of opinion among...

The Geopolitics of Peace Operations: A Research Agenda

International Peacekeeping 21:4 (Fall 2014), pp. 501-508.

Peacekeeping Works Better Than You May Think

CIPS and CIC blogs Does peacekeeping work? Janice Stein (University of Toronto) and I had a lively exchange on this subject on the CBC...

State-Level Effects of Transitional Justice: What Do We Know?

International Journal of Transitional Justice 4:3 (November 2010), pp. 329-354 Abstract: At the core of policy debates on the...

Saving Liberal Peacebuilding

Review of International Studies 36:2 (April 2010), pp. 337-365 Abstract: Liberal peacebuilding has become the target of considerable...

Does Liberal Peacebuilding Have a Future?

In Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver Richmond, eds., New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding (UNU/Brookings, 2009).

New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding

Co-edited with Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond; UNU/Brookings, 2009.

Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations

Co-edited with Timothy D. Sisk; Routledge, 2009.

Understanding the Coordination Problem in Postwar Statebuilding

In Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations...

Managing Contradictions: The Inherent Dilemmas of Postwar Statebuilding

International Peace Academy report (Nov. 2007)

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