Rethinking peacebuilding: the quest for just peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are commonly referred to there is surprisingly little research and few conceptualizations of the interplay between the two.This edited volume is the result of three years of collaborative research and draws upon insights from such disciplines as peace and conflict, international law, political

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: the study of just and durable peace; PART I Just peace in theory; 1 Linking peace and justice in peacemaking; 2 Recognitional just peace; 3 Beyond justice versus peace: transitional justice and peacebuilding strategies; 4 From peacebuilding as resistance to peacebuilding as liberation; 5 Deliberating and localizing just peace; 6 Beyond eschatology: a non-teleological approach to security, peace and justice; 7 Justice post bellum and international law; PART II In search of just peace in practice

8 Peace agreements, justice and durable peace9 Social justice, restorative justice, and EU peacebuilding in the Arab-Islamic World; 10 Towards a just peace? Roles and dilemmas of EU peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine; 11 Representations of peace in the EU's peacebuilding approach in Bosnia-Herzegovina; 12 Transitional justice in the quest for just and durable peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Conclusion: rethinking just peacebuilding in theory and practice; References; Index