Edited by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, Ako Muto This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the complex drivers of violent extremism, along…
Adaptive Peacebuilding
A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century About this book This open access book responds to the…
Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria This is an edited volume published by Palgrave-Macmillan…
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
This book has been published by Palgrave and is available under an Open Access arrangement at: Palgrave MacMillan Amazon It…
Adaptive Peacebuilding
Article published in a special issue of International Affairs 94:2, “Peacebuilding in an era of Pragmatism” by guest editors:…
Rising Powers & Peacebuilding
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold?, edited by Charles T. Call and Cedric de Coning (Palgrave, 2017) is available for…
The Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping
Edited by Chiyuki Aoi, Cedric de Coning & Ramesh Thakur United Nations University Press, 2007 Copy available at: https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:2483/pdf9789280811421.pdf Abstract: Peacekeeping…
UN Peacekeeping doctrine in a new era
© 2017 – Routledge (http://bit.ly/2peaceopsdoctrine) Amazon (http://amzn.to/2kYXzAL) CIC interview on this book: http://peaceoperationsreview.org/interviews/cedric-de-coning-adapting-the-un-peacekeeping-doctrine-to-stabilization-missions-protection-of-civilians-mandates-and-new-threats/ Video and report from book launch seminar at IPI on…
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Synopsis: This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises…
UN Peacebuilding Architecture: The First 10 Years
Since its establishment, the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries.…
The Future of African Peace Operations
Available from Zed Books or in North America from: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo23364698.html Or open source ebook available here: https://www.academia.edu/24792227/Future_of_African_Peace_Operations_From_Janjaweed_to_Boko_Haram CIC interview on…
The BRICS and Coexistence: An Alternative Vision of World Order
The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment…
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research
White, S., Collet, D., Alcoberro, A. et al. Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research. Ambio 54, 774–792…
What Future for Peace in a World Characterized by Uncertainty and Fear?
Cedric de Coning and John, Lord Alderdice (2025) “What Future for Peace in a World Characterized by Uncertainty and Fear?,”…
Is Europe preparing for the wrong war in Ukraine?
Published originally as a LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe-preparing-wrong-war-ukraine-cedric-de-coning-nrv4f/ Over the last few months, the political and diplomatic focus in Europe’s capitals has…
The Peace and Security Implications of Climate Change for the Nordic Region
Published in the Nordic Review of International Studies, No 3 of 2024, and available here: https://nris.journal.fi/article/view/141742 Abstract Climate-related stressors like…
Climate change and peacebuilding: sub-themes of an emerging research agenda
Florian Krampe, Dylan O’Driscoll, McKenzie Johnson, Dahlia Simangan, Farah Hegazi, Cedric de Coning, Climate change and peacebuilding: sub-themes of an…
What Would It Take for a Ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine to Hold?
Published in IPI’s Global Observatory on 18 March 2025, and available here: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2025/03/what-would-it-take-for-a-ceasefire-between-russia-and-ukraine-to-hold/ We know a lot about how to…
Coping with the Complexity of the Changing Character of War: Toward a New Paradigm of Adaptive Peace
Published as: de Coning, Cedric (2024) “Coping with the Complexity of the Changing Character of War: Toward a New Paradigm…
How does climate change affect peace and security?
Should the Security Council Engage with Implications of Climate Change? Let’s Look at the Scientific Evidence
Halvard Buhaug, Cedric de Coning, Nina von Uexkull Published in the Global Observatory on 8 June 2023, available at: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2023/06/security-council-climate-change-scientific-evidence/…
Complexity 4 Peace 