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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	35
Correction	29
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	29
From Euphoria to Disenchantment: Temporality and the Changing Local Perceptions of International Interventions in Mali	28
How Is Peace Made?	26
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	24
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	18
Three’s Company? Fragmenting Hierarchies, Multiple Patrons and Secessionist Escalation in Republika Srpska	17
Correction	17
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	16
Parallel Worlds: the Theory and Practice of ‘Ownership’ in Women, Peace and Security	14
Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy	13
A Spatial Analysis of Peacekeeping Training Centres: Power, Practices and Knowledge Production	13
Governing Humanitarians from Afar: Organizational Professionalism as a Disciplinary Mode of Control	12
A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers	12
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance	12
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	11
Post-military Futures: Plans and Failure of the Peace Operations’ Infrastructure Handover in Darfur	11
Engaging Reluctant Citizens: Parent States and Legitimacy during Critical Junctures	11
The Palliative Role of Reparations in Reconciling Societies with the Past: Redressing Victims or Consolidating the State?	11
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies	11
Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	10
Introducing Space for Peace	10
Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	10
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10

Everyday Peace Formation from Below in Rural Georgia	9
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
Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	8
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	8
Flying Under the Ethnic Radar: Subdued Identities of Serbs Amidst Croatian Statebuilding	8
Constructing the Local in Madagascar: Resistance and Politics of Scale	8
Correction	8
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	7
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	7
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	7
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	6
‘We Don't Want Another Observer Mission’: The East African Force and the Politics of Deployment in the DRC	6
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	6
Power Peace: The Resolution of the Syrian Conflict in a Post-Liberal Era of Peacemaking	6
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	6
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	6
Multitrack Diplomacy and Inclusion: Is Patchworked Peacemaking Really a Way Forward?	6
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	6
A World Without Alternatives: R2P Meets TINA	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
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	5
Variations of Peace in Colombia	5
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index	5
Fixing the Wrong Failures? Why Security Sector Reform Fails Without Sound Theories of Change	4
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	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
Hybrid Peace, Hybrid War: How Local Peacebuilders Frame the Non-Local Violence They Confront	4
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	4
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	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
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	4
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
International Recognition Meets Areas of Limited Statehood: Practices and Effects on Hybrid Actors in Post-2011 Libya	4
Norms and Peace in a Turbulent World	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
Correction	3
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	3
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	3
Peace Education, Religious Discourse, and Scientific Enquiry: Dialogue and Collaboration from Eastern European Contexts	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
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	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
Adverse Incorporation and Local Economies of Peace	2
Sustaining Legitimacy of Unrecognized Statehood: How Turkish Cypriot Elites Cope with Internal and External Challenges	2
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	2
Counterframing Truth? Interactions in Art and Justice in Post-Conflict Cambodia	2
On Statehood and Sovereignty: Towards a Critical Appraisal of State Formation and International Statebuilding	2
Violence and Security in Central Asia: Conflict Dynamics and Everyday Survival	2
Building Trust Through Care: A Feminist Take on Inclusion in Multi-Track Mediation	2
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	2
‘Pactantes y no pactadas’: Gender Mainstreaming and the Political Ceiling of Colombian Women's Role in the Havana Dialogues	2
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	2
Perceptions of Peace Operations in Mozambique: Help or Hindrance to Negotiating a New Social Contract?	2
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	2
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya	2
Disarmament on Whose Terms? Rethinking Armed Group Control in the Philippines	2
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’: The Role of Socio-technical Imaginaries in Myanmar	2
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	2
Women and the War on Drugs: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Coca Growers’ Everyday Experiences	2
Testing the Multitrack-Inclusion Nexus: Evaluating European Union Local Engagement in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh	2
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond	2
Graffiti as Method: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Political Perception and Community Relations in Belfast	2