What is the Problem with Peacebuilding?

Abstract

Review essay of: Peacebuilding in crisis: rethinking paradigms and practices of transnational cooperation, edited by Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held and Ulrich Schneckener, Routledge Global Cooperation Series, London and New York, Routledge, 2016, pp. 256+index, £36.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-138-85859-6 ; Decolonising intervention: international statebuilding in Mozambique, by Meera Sabaratnam, Series Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions, London and New York, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017, pp. 146+references+index, £85.00 (hbk), ISBN 987-1-78348-274-0 ; Understanding quality peace: peacebuilding after civil war, edited by Madhav Joshi and Peter Wallensteen, Series Security and Conflict Management, London and New York, Routledge, 2018, pp. 284+index, £29.99 (pbk), ISBN 987-1-138-30768-1