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LATEST RESEARCH

International Peace Building Failures in Civil Wars (Case Study of the Democratic Republic of Congo)
Séverine Autesserre. Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University.

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My research seeks to explain international peace building failures in civil wars through an analysis of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s transition from war to peace and democracy (2003...

Crafting the State: Transitional Governance and the International Role in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Naazneen H. Barma. Doctoral candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley.

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State-building as part of a post-conflict peace process and as a response to state failure has become one of the most important and distinctive undertakings of the United Nations. For countries to...