OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	38
Correction	31
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	31
From Euphoria to Disenchantment: Temporality and the Changing Local Perceptions of International Interventions in Mali	30
How Is Peace Made?	29
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	28
Correction	22
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	21
Three’s Company? Fragmenting Hierarchies, Multiple Patrons and Secessionist Escalation in Republika Srpska	18
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	17
Parallel Worlds: the Theory and Practice of ‘Ownership’ in Women, Peace and Security	16
A Spatial Analysis of Peacekeeping Training Centres: Power, Practices and Knowledge Production	14
A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers	13
Between Resistance and Neoliberal Resilience: Rethinking the Role of Education in Emergencies in Shaping Young Refugee Social and Political Agency	13
Governing Humanitarians from Afar: Organizational Professionalism as a Disciplinary Mode of Control	13
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance	12
Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy	12
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies	11
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	11
Introducing Space for Peace	10
Post-military Futures: Plans and Failure of the Peace Operations’ Infrastructure Handover in Darfur	10
Engaging Reluctant Citizens: Parent States and Legitimacy during Critical Junctures	10
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	10
Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	10
Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process	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
Everyday Peace Formation from Below in Rural Georgia	9
Correction	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
Flying Under the Ethnic Radar: Subdued Identities of Serbs Amidst Croatian Statebuilding	7
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	7
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	7
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	6
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	6
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	6
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	6
Making the Case for Peacekeeping as Proxy Intervention	6
‘We Don't Want Another Observer Mission’: The East African Force and the Politics of Deployment in the DRC	6
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	6
Multitrack Diplomacy and Inclusion: Is Patchworked Peacemaking Really a Way Forward?	6
Power Peace: The Resolution of the Syrian Conflict in a Post-Liberal Era of Peacemaking	6
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	5
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index	5
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	5
How do ‘Frozen Conflicts’ over Territory Defrost? A Three-tier Analysis of Peace, War, and Status Quo Outcomes	5
Towards Emancipatory Statebuilding in Kosovo? Spatial and Aesthetic Community Building After war	5
A Lack of Strategic Vision: Robust Peacekeeping’s Unintended Consequences	5
Somalia’s Fragmented Logics of Public Authority and Transnational Conflict	5
Variations of Peace in Colombia	5
A World Without Alternatives: R2P Meets TINA	5
Fixing the Wrong Failures? Why Security Sector Reform Fails Without Sound Theories of Change	5
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	5
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	4
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	4
International Recognition Meets Areas of Limited Statehood: Practices and Effects on Hybrid Actors in Post-2011 Libya	4
R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson	4
Resignifying the Colonial Past: Historical Commissions and the Limits of Transitional Justice	4
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	4
Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions	4
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	4
Peace Education, Religious Discourse, and Scientific Enquiry: Dialogue and Collaboration from Eastern European Contexts	4
Peacemaking as Statebuilding: Colombia’s 2016 Agreement in a Comparative Perspective	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
Hybrid Peace, Hybrid War: How Local Peacebuilders Frame the Non-Local Violence They Confront	4
Norms and Peace in a Turbulent World	4
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	4
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	3
Correction	3
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	3
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	3
Testing the Multitrack-Inclusion Nexus: Evaluating European Union Local Engagement in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh	3

Towards a Framework for Integrating Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding and Peacebuilding	3
(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali	3
Active International Actors Accompaniment, Reputational Costs and Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement Implementation	3
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	3
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	3
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	3
War, Ontology and Bodies: Beyond Human-Centred Approaches	3
Tackling Terrorism in Africa: US Remote Interventionism and the Fight against Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in Kenya	3
Invoking ‘the Customary’ in the Formalization of Land Reform in Liberia and Sierra Leone	3
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	3
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	3