Cedric de Coning and John, Lord Alderdice (2025) “What Future for Peace in a World Characterized by Uncertainty and Fear?,” … More
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Resilience, Peacebuilding, and Preventing Violent Extremism: A Complex Systems Perspective on Sustaining Peace
Edited by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, Ako Muto This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the complex drivers of violent extremism, along … More
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 … More
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
Insights from Complexity Theory for Peace and Conflict Studies
This is a chapter in O. Richmond, G. Visoka (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, that was published … 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
Understanding Peacebuilding as Essentially Local
When applying Complexity theory to peacebuilding we can conclude that self-sustainable peace is directly linked to, and influenced by, the … 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
Complexity 4 Peace 