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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?,” … More

complexity, peace, peacebuilding, Uncertainty, world order

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

Complex Systems, complexity, peace, peacebuilding, Resilience, Violent Extremism

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 … More

history, news, peace, peacebuilding, politics

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 … More

African Union, Peace operations, peacebuilding, United Nations

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

complexity, Evaluation, peacebuilding

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. … More

peacebuilding, Peacebuilding Architecture, Peacebuilding Commission, Peacebuilding Fund, sustaining peace, United Nations

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 … More

African peace operations, African Standby Force, African Union, peace enforcement, Peace operations, peacebuilding, robust peacekeeping, stabilisation

Rising powers and the future of peacekeeping and peacebuilding

Published as: Benjamin de Carvalho and Cedric de Coning. 2013. Rising Powers and the Future of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding,  Oslo: … More

BRICS, emerging powers, governance, national ownership, peace, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, rising powers, security, sovereignty, United Nations

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

complexity, fragility, local, peacebuilding

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, fragility, local, peacebuilding, self-organisation, Stability

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Cedric de Coning

Cedric de Coning is a Research Professor with the Peace, Conflict and Development Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), where he coordinates the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON) and co-convenes the NUPI Center on United Nations and Global Governance. He is also a Senior Advisor for ACCORD. He tweets at @CedricdeConing

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