Adaptive Peacebuilding

Given the urgency and complexity of current armed conflict trends and the lack of effectiveness on the ground of determined-designed peacebuilding interventions in several regions, this open access book explores the UN's sustaining peace approach, as well as one new emerging method for pursuing it, namely adaptive peacebuilding. The goal is to make policy audiences aware of alternative peacebuilding approaches in addressing current challenges related to violent armed conflicts.In addition, the book assesses the potential of adaptive peacebuilding versus determined-designed approaches by considering evidence-based research from case studies in four regional contexts - Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also focuses on how international peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate peacebuilding programs in contemporary conflict-affected situations. Through empirical research, this study analyzes various peacebuilding interactions between external and local actors and how they have facilitated or hindered the peacebuilding process in each case study. The researchers placed particular emphasis on issues related to the complexity of armed conflicts and the adaptiveness of respective peacebuilding interventions.The book further sheds light on the peacebuilding contributions of two major Asia-Pacific countries, supporting peacebuilding actions in complex, protracted, and recurring conflict. The aim is to provide a structured analysis on recent peacebuilding initiatives by relevant Non-Western peacebuilding countries, taking China and Japan as case studies, and identify if there is an evident shift in their peacebuilding approaches and how determined-designed or adaptive their approaches are.