Stabilization Missions – Lessons to Be Learned from Resilience-Based Peacebuilding
by
Philipp Fluri

Abstract:

International stabilization missions are often unsuccessful, as demonstrated by the fact that a large number of countries that have hosted such missions have also relapsed into conflict within 20 years. The author suggests looking to experiences of resilience-based peacebuilding for more successful examples. These remain largely unknown or ignored and still do not enjoy the attention they deserve, whether because the ‘wrong’ NGO crowd dominates peacebuilding programming, the ‘wrong’ departments and ministries are considered the main peacebuilding part­ners or the resilience-based projects simply are not costly enough to at­tract attention. A framework for resilience and examples from Guatema­la, Liberia, Timor-Leste, and Afghanistan are discussed and lessons to be learned identified.

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The Winter 2016 issue of Connections presents original articles on Russia's hybrid warfare toolset and its Soviet predecessors, the crisis in Ukraine, caused by the annexation of Crimea and the Kremlin-backed separatist forces in South-Eastern Ukraine, the enduring validity of Clausewitz's "On War" for modern conflict, and a review of university pr... Read More