Building Sustainable Peace

As editors Tom Keating and W. Andy Knight put it: “The debacle of the US-led coalition intervention in Iraq reminds us of the difficulties involved in building peace. For the world’s sole superpower, winning the war against the inferior Iraqi army was relatively easy. However, winning the peace is proving to be much more complex than the occupying power had anticipated. This book is about more than winning the peace. It is about making peace sustainable.” The book seeks to explore the potential and pitfalls of peacebuilding and pre-and postconflict reconciliation processes. The essays in this collection address, inter alia, the following issues: the factors that have encouraged foreign governments and international institutions that intervene in an effort to contribute to the process of resolving civil wars and reconciling divided societies; the different techniques that have been used in the peacebuilding process; the role of various nongovernmental actors and regional organizations; and the experiences of peacebuilding efforts in different parts of the world.