93549 - PEACEKEEPING, PEACEBUILDING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course provides students with tools to analyze the practice of conflict resolution, especially as emerged after the end of the Cold War, through a review of key theories, concepts and practices of international interventions aimed at peacekeeping and peacebuilding. At the end of the course, the student will be able to: - Identify and distinguish the different approaches to peacekeeping and interventions - Discuss the empirical aspects of international interventions, identifying strengths and weaknesses of different types of action - Connect different practices of peacekeeping and peacebuilding with changes in the international system and foreign policies

Contenuti

The course is organized in two main sections. The first five weeks aims at introducing the students to the basic theoretical and analytical tools to understand and examine the practice of conflict management and resolution and its evolution. This section alternates lectures and seminars in which the students will have the opportunity to discuss the assigned readings. Students are required to read the assigned material before the scheduled meetings. The last five weeks instead alternates lectures and students’ presentations organized around the topics detailed in the program (see below). Students will work in team and will present their work during the meetings.

The "Peacekeeping, peacebuilding and conflict resolution" course aims at introducing students to the study of conflict management and resolution in the international system. The course aims at offering the theoretical and analytical tools to examine the practice, approaches and methods of international intervention in areas of crisis and conflict. In particular, during the semester, the course will address the themes of peacekeeping, peacemaking/peace enforcement, peacebuilding, statebuilding and approaches to stabilization; it will analyze the main actors (states, international organizations and non-governmental organizations) involved in conflict management and resolution; and will evaluate the political, economic and security reforms promoted in contexts of crisis and conflict. The study of these and other aspects related to the management and resolution of conflicts will be enriched by the presentation of several case studies.

NOTE: The first meeting of each week (Thursday) will be held remotely on MS TEAMS, while the second meeting (Friday) is scheduled in classroom.

Testi/Bibliografia

The list of readings for students who regularly attend classes will be discussed and circulated on the first day of class.

Students who do not regularly attend classes are invited to contact the instructor to discuss the reading list. 

1. Introduction to the course “Peacekeeping, peacebuilding and conflict resolution”: defining peace operations, theoretical and methodological issues.

Keen, David (2000) ‘War and peace: What’s the difference?’, International Peacekeeping, 7 (4): 1-22.

Michael Pugh (2004): Peacekeeping and critical theory, International Peacekeeping, 11 (1): 39-58.

*Barnett, M., Kim, H., O’Donnell, M., & Sitea, L. (2007). Peacebuilding: What Is in a Name?, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 13(1), 35-58.

2. Evolution of peace operations: peacekeeping’s generations and key actors

Fortna, V. (2004). Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Intervention and the Duration of Peace after Civil War. International Studies Quarterly, 48 (2), 269-292.

Jean-Marie Guéhenno (2018) The United Nations & Civil Wars, Daedalus 147 (1): 185–196.

* Goulding, Marrack. (1993). The Evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), 69(3): 451-464.

3. Peacemaking, Peace enforcement and Mediation

Richard Gowan and Stephen John Stedman (2018) The international regime for treating civil war, 1988-2017, Daedalus, 147 (1): 171-184.

Wallensteen, Peter, and Isak Svensson (2014). ‘Talking Peace: International Mediation in Armed Conflicts’. Journal of Peace Research 51 (2): 315–27.

* Howard Lise Morjé and Stark Alexandra (2018). How Civil Wars End: The International System, Norms, and the Role of External Actors, International Security, 42(3): 127-171.

4. Peacebuilding

Oliver P. Richmond (2004) UN peace operations and the dilemmas of the peacebuilding consensus, International Peacekeeping, 11(1): 83-101.

Roland Paris (2011) Saving Liberal Peacebuilding, Review of International Studies 36(2): 337-365.

*Roger Mac Ginty & Oliver P Richmond (2013) The Local Turn in Peace Building: a critical agenda for peace, Third World Quarterly, 34 (5): 763-783.

*Jarstad, A., & Belloni, R. (2012). Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance: Impact and Prospects of Liberal Peacebuilding. Global Governance, 18 (1), 1-6.

5. Statebuilding

Grimm, Sonja, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, and Olivier Nay (2014). ‘“Fragile States”: Introducing a Political Concept’. Third World Quarterly 35 (2): 197–209.

Hameiri, Shahar (2007). Failed states or a failed paradigm? State capacity and the limits of institutionalism. Journal of International Relations and Development 10: 122–149.

* Sørensen, Georg. 2001. ‘War and State-Making: Why Doesn’t It Work in the Third World?’ Security Dialogue 32 (3): 341–54.

6. Stabilization and the crisis of peacebuilding?

Curran, D. and Holtom, P., 2015. Resonating, Rejecting, Reinterpreting: Mapping the Stabilization Discourse in the United Nations Security Council, 2000–14. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 4(1).

Cedric de Coning (2019) How UN Peacekeeping Operations Can Adapt to a New Multipolar World Order, International Peacekeeping, 26(5): 536-539.

*Roberto Belloni & Francesco N. Moro (2019): Stability and Stability Operations:

Definitions, Drivers, Approaches, Ethnopolitics, 18(5): 445-461.

7. Political reforms for conflict management and resolution

Benjamin Reilly (2006) Political Engineering and Party Politics in Conflict-Prone Societies, Democratization, 13(5): 811-827

Anna Jarstad (2013). Sharing Power to Build States.In: Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding, David Chandler and Timothy D. Sisk (editor), Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

*Varshney, A. (2001). Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond. World Politics, 53(3), 362-398.

8. Economic reforms for conflict management and resolution

Susan L. Woodward (2013) The IFIs and post-conflict political economy in Mats Berdal and Dominik Zaum (eds). Political economy of statebuilding. Power after peace. London and New York: Routledge.

Kathleen M. Jennings & Morten Bøås (2015) Transactions and Interactions: Everyday Life in the Peacekeeping Economy, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 9:3, 281-295.

* Goodhand, J. (2008), “Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post- conflict Peacebuilding in Afghanistan”, International Peacekeeping, 15(3): 405-423.

9. Security reforms for conflict management and resolution

Paul Jackson (2011), Security Sector Reform and State Building, Third World Quarterly, 32(10): 1803-1822.

Mark Sedra (2007) Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan and Iraq: Exposing a Concept in Crisis, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 3(2): 7-23.

* Nadine Ansorg & Eleanor Gordon (2019) Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 13(1): 2-24.

10. Gender and peacebuilding

Nicola Pratt & Sophie Richter-Devroe (2011) Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 13 (4): 489-503.

Clare Castillejo. 20 Mar 2013, Gender and Statebuilding in: Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding Routledge (eds. D. Chandler and T. Sisk), chapter 3.

* Björkdahl, A & J. Mannergren Selimovic (2015) "Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the local: protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda", Conflict, Security and Development 15(4): 311-335.

Metodi didattici

Lectures, seminars, class presentations

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Students who do regularly attend classes:

Participation in class and presentation (30% of the final grade)

Paper, around 6000 words (70% of the final grade). The topic, objective and structure of the papers will be discussed in class.  

Students who do not regularly attend classes will be assessed through a written exam. The exam will be composed by 3 questions and students will have to provide answers in the range of 1000 words each. Exams will be made available on Esami OnLine (EOL) 3 days (72 hours) before the exam dates (“appelli”) as posted on AlmaEsami and will be due on exam date by the time indicated in the web page.

Orario di ricevimento

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