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…
Ad-hoc Security Initiatives, an African Response to Insecurity
Published as: Cedric de Coning, Andrew E. Yaw Tchie & Anab Ovidie Grand (2022) Ad-hoc Security Initiatives, an African response to insecurity, African…
The Case for Integrating Sustaining Peace into an Expanded Climate, Peace and Security Concept
Published as: Cedric De Coning & Hafsa M. Maalim, ‘The Case for Integrating Sustaining Peace into an Expanded Climate, Peace…
Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship
Published as: Paul Beaumont, Cedric de Coning, Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship, International Studies Review, Volume 24, Issue…
COP26 and the climate-peace nexus: why peace should matter for the COP and why COP26 is important for peace
Published by the Global Observatory on 12 November: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2021/11/why-peace-should-matter-for-the-cop-and-why-cop26-is-important-for-peace/ In the medium to long-term, the most effective prevention against the worst…
Lessons for Cabo Delgado from the African experience in Somalia
Published in the ACCORD COVID-19 Conflict & Resilience Monitor on 29 April 2021, available at: https://www.accord.org.za/analysis/lessons-for-cabo-delgado-from-the-african-experience-in-somalia/ What can we learn…
Strengthening the resilience and adaptive capacity of societies at risk from hybrid threats
How would the civilian population of a specific country respond to significant disruptions caused by hybrid threats? This paper explores…
Hybridity, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Complexity
This chapter introduces Complexity and Adaptive Peacebuilding and considers how it contributes to the contemporary hybridity debate. Following a brief…
The future of UN peace operations: Principled adaptation through phases of contraction, moderation, and renewal
Published in Contemporary Security Policy in March 2021 as part of a special issue on the future of UN peace…
Complexity 4 Peace Operations 