Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold?, edited by Charles T. Call and Cedric de Coning (Palgrave, 2017) is available for…
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. This…
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…
Can the AU Finance its own peace operations, and if so, what would the impact be?
(draft contribution to the Annual Report of African Union Peace Operations, to be published in 2017 by the African Union…
Peace enforcement in Africa: Doctrinal distinctions between the African Union and United Nations
Abstract When the United Nations (UN) Security Council needs to authorize a peace enforcement operation in Africa, its partner of…
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…
Is stabilisation the new normal? Implications of stabilisation mandates for the use of force in UN peace operations
(Draft book chapter for forthcoming book on use of force in UN peace operations. Photo by Marco Domino, UN Photo) Introduction…
From peacebuilding to sustaining peace: Implications of complexity for resilience and sustainability
Abstract: This paper considers some of the implications of applying a complexity theory lens to the peacebuilding field. Amongst others…
