POST-CONFLICT PEACEBUILDING

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(Slashed with PACS 60006 ) Throughout the course of the past decade, peacebuilding has become the concept du jour of not only the field of conflict resolution and peace studies, but of the larger fields of international relations, development studies, transitional justice and a host of other subfields and portions of area studies. This is partly due to the fact that peacebuilding has become somewhat of a monster, enveloping and consuming different approaches to conflict resolution, international relations and development studies to the point that almost any activity addressing those involved or suffering from conflicts can be included under its umbrella. However, given that the concept was originally coined to help address the tasks necessary to implement peace, this course largely, though not wholly, focuses on post-conflict peacebuilding and how different actors at different levels have roles to play in achieving sustainable peace within communities, regions and states. The course examines the concepts that make up peacebuilding, manners in which peacebuilding efforts have been implemented by actors at multiple levels and problems associated with dominant approaches to the topic.