OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	29
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	29
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	28
Correction	27
From Euphoria to Disenchantment: Temporality and the Changing Local Perceptions of International Interventions in Mali	26
How Is Peace Made?	18
Correction	17
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	17
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	16
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	15
Parallel Worlds: the Theory and Practice of ‘Ownership’ in Women, Peace and Security	13
Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy	12
Governing Humanitarians from Afar: Organizational Professionalism as a Disciplinary Mode of Control	12
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance	11
A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers	11
Post-military Futures: Plans and Failure of the Peace Operations’ Infrastructure Handover in Darfur	11
Introducing Space for Peace	10
Engaging Reluctant Citizens: Parent States and Legitimacy during Critical Junctures	10
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies	10
The Palliative Role of Reparations in Reconciling Societies with the Past: Redressing Victims or Consolidating the State?	10
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	10
Everyday Peace Formation from Below in Rural Georgia	9
Combat Legitimacy and Robust Peace Operations: Calibrating Military Protection of Civilians	9
Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	9

Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	9
Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process	9
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	8
Correction	8
Flying Under the Ethnic Radar: Subdued Identities of Serbs Amidst Croatian Statebuilding	8
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	8
Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	8
Constructing the Local in Madagascar: Resistance and Politics of Scale	7
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	7
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	6
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	6
‘We Don't Want Another Observer Mission’: The East African Force and the Politics of Deployment in the DRC	6
Multitrack Diplomacy and Inclusion: Is Patchworked Peacemaking Really a Way Forward?	6
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	6
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	6
Power Peace: The Resolution of the Syrian Conflict in a Post-Liberal Era of Peacemaking	6
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	6
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	6
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	6
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	5
Towards Emancipatory Statebuilding in Kosovo? Spatial and Aesthetic Community Building After war	5
Fixing the Wrong Failures? Why Security Sector Reform Fails Without Sound Theories of Change	5
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index	5
A Lack of Strategic Vision: Robust Peacekeeping’s Unintended Consequences	5
A World Without Alternatives: R2P Meets TINA	5
How do ‘Frozen Conflicts’ over Territory Defrost? A Three-tier Analysis of Peace, War, and Status Quo Outcomes	4
Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions	4
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	4
Norms and Peace in a Turbulent World	4
Variations of Peace in Colombia	4
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	4
Peacemaking as Statebuilding: Colombia’s 2016 Agreement in a Comparative Perspective	4
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	4
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	4
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	4
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	4
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	4
Classification and Compensation. How the Conflict Type Shapes Reparations in Post-War Justice	4
(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali	3
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	3
R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson	3
Invoking ‘the Customary’ in the Formalization of Land Reform in Liberia and Sierra Leone	3
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	3
Careless Talk Costs Lives: The Causes and Effects of Marginalising Peacebuilding Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities	3
Hybrid Peace, Hybrid War: How Local Peacebuilders Frame the Non-Local Violence They Confront	3
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	3
Tackling Terrorism in Africa: US Remote Interventionism and the Fight against Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in Kenya	3
Correction	3
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	3
International Recognition Meets Areas of Limited Statehood: Practices and Effects on Hybrid Actors in Post-2011 Libya	3

Peace Education, Religious Discourse, and Scientific Enquiry: Dialogue and Collaboration from Eastern European Contexts	3
War, Ontology and Bodies: Beyond Human-Centred Approaches	3
Active International Actors Accompaniment, Reputational Costs and Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement Implementation	3
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	3
On Statehood and Sovereignty: Towards a Critical Appraisal of State Formation and International Statebuilding	2
Building Trust Through Care: A Feminist Take on Inclusion in Multi-Track Mediation	2
Sustaining Legitimacy of Unrecognized Statehood: How Turkish Cypriot Elites Cope with Internal and External Challenges	2
Disarmament on Whose Terms? Rethinking Armed Group Control in the Philippines	2
Adverse Incorporation and Local Economies of Peace	2
Counterframing Truth? Interactions in Art and Justice in Post-Conflict Cambodia	2
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	2
Testing the Multitrack-Inclusion Nexus: Evaluating European Union Local Engagement in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh	2
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya	2
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’: The Role of Socio-technical Imaginaries in Myanmar	2
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond	2
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	2
Violence and Security in Central Asia: Conflict Dynamics and Everyday Survival	2
‘Pactantes y no pactadas’: Gender Mainstreaming and the Political Ceiling of Colombian Women's Role in the Havana Dialogues	2
Women and the War on Drugs: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Coca Growers’ Everyday Experiences	2
Environmental Harms and Entangled Lifeworlds in the Russia-Ukraine War: A Relational Reframing of Transitional Justice	2
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	2
Graffiti as Method: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Political Perception and Community Relations in Belfast	2
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	2
Perceptions of Peace Operations in Mozambique: Help or Hindrance to Negotiating a New Social Contract?	2
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	2