Published as: Paul Beaumont, Cedric de Coning, Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship, International Studies Review, Volume 24, Issue … More
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Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the Complexity of Influencing Societal Change Without Causing Harm
Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the Complexity of Influencing Societal Change Without Causing Harm Cedric de Coning (2020) Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the … More
Adaptive Mediation
Published: Conflict Trends, 2/2018, Durban: ACCORD, available at: https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/adaptive-mediation/ Cedric de Coning and Stephen Gray[1] Introduction When the … More
Complexity thinking and adaptive peacebuilding: What can it contribute to our understanding of inclusive political settlements?
Published under this title in Accord (Issue 28, 2019), available here: https://www.c-r.org/accord/inclusion-peace-processes/complexity-thinking-and-adaptive-peacebuilding We often refer to peace processes being … More
Adaptive Peacebuilding
Article published in a special issue of International Affairs 94:2, “Peacebuilding in an era of Pragmatism” by guest editors: … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
Insights from Complexity for Stability and Fragility
Fragile States are usually described as ‘complex’. This has led me to look into what we know about how to … More
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