OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice: An Interdisciplinary Framing	50
Macedonia, Bosnia and Kosovo: Contested Statehood and the EU	31
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	27
Inclusion in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A ‘History of the Present’	20
The Case for Transformative Reparations: In Pursuit of Structural Socio-Economic Reform in Post-Conflict Societies	19
The Value of Further Education in Security Sector Reform: Autoethnographic Reflections from Palestine, Lebanon, and Georgia	18
The Politics of Space and Relationality: Localization and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Uganda	15
Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	14
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	14
Secessionist Conflicts: Unresolved Legacies of United Nations Trusteeship	13
The Local, the ‘Indigenous’ and the Limits of Rethinking Peacebuilding	12
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	12
Devolution or Decapitation? Decentralization During Conflict in Ukraine	12
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	11
Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	11
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	10
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	10
Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process	10
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	10
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	10
Decolonial Politics: State, Statelessness, and Coexistence in Peace	9
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	9
Civil Sanctuary: Clearly Marked Spaces of Civility in Divided Urban Settings	9
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	8
Space for Peace: A Research Agenda	8

Correction	8
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	8
The Failure of the Social Contract in Iraq: Iraqi Perspectives	7
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	7
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	7
Correction	7
Subverting Peace: The Origins and Legacies of de-Ba’athification in Iraq	7
Political Agency in Peace and Conflict Scenarios: Re-Situating Political Authority in Peacebuilding, State-Building, and Geopolitics	7
What Truth? How Civil Society Organisations Shape the Knowledge Production of Truth Commissions	7
Evaluating the Pitfalls of External Statebuilding in Post-2003 Iraq (2003–2021)	7
Social Media, Stereotypes, and the Acknowledgement of War Crimes	6
Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa	6
A Queer Response to ‘the Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect'	5
Security Force Assistance to The Gambia Following the 2017 Political Transition: A Recipe for Further Fragmentation?	5
Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	5
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	5
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	5
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	5
Colombia’s Program to Substitute Crops Used for Illegal Purposes: Its Impact on Security and Development	5
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	5
The ‘South’ Speaks Back: Exposing the Ethical Stakes of Dismissing Resilience in Conflict-Affected Contexts	5
Sustaining Legitimacy of Unrecognized Statehood: How Turkish Cypriot Elites Cope with Internal and External Challenges	5
‘Pactantes y no pactadas’: Gender Mainstreaming and the Political Ceiling of Colombian Women's Role in the Havana Dialogues	5
Perpetual Peacebuilding: A New Paradigm to Move Beyond the Linearity of Liberal Peacebuilding	4
When a State Seeks a Nation and a Nation Seeks a State – EU Accession in the Foreign Policies of Montenegro and Serbia	4
Conflict Disruption: Reassessing the Peaceandconflict System	4
You Cannot Improve What You Do Not Measure – The Gendered Dimensions of UN PKO Data	4
How Many Turns Make a Revolution? Whither the ‘Dialogue of the Deaf’ Between Peacebuilding Scholars and Practitioners	4
Correction	4
On Statehood and Sovereignty: Towards a Critical Appraisal of State Formation and International Statebuilding	4
Applying Principal-Agent Theory to Security Force Assistance: The Atypical Case of Post-2015 Tunisia	4
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’: The Role of Socio-technical Imaginaries in Myanmar	4
Inclusivity in Practice: Patchworks of Inclusion at Multiple Tracks in the Colombian Peace Process	4
Humanitarian Shapeshifting: Navigation, Brokerage and Access in Eastern DR Congo	3
Protecting Women from Violence in the United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites, South Sudan?	3
Analysing (In)formal Relations and Networks in Security Force Assistance: The Case of Niger	3
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond	3
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	3
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya	3
Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces	3
In the Name of Peace or Self-Interest? States’ Intentions in Peacekeeping Operations and Impacts on the Effectiveness of Troop Contributions	3
Trans-Scalar Ethnographic Peace Research: Understanding the Invisible Drivers of Complex Conflict and Complex Peace	3
Counterframing Truth? Interactions in Art and Justice in Post-Conflict Cambodia	2
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	2
With or Without the State: Moral Divergence and the Question of Trust in Security Assemblages in Burkina Faso	2
Untold Stories: Ex-Combatant Silences in Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission	2
Constructing the Local in Madagascar: Resistance and Politics of Scale	2
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	2
Canada’s Ontological Transition? Learning from Indigenous-Led Interactions with Truth and Reconciliation	2
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	2

Reluctant to Protect? The Role of Moral Reputation in Joining Military Coalitions	2
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	2
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	2
Women and the War on Drugs: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Coca Growers’ Everyday Experiences	2
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	2
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	2
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	2
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	1
Religious Peacebuilding in Iraq: Prospects and Challenges from the Hawza	1
Correction	1
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	1
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	1
Building Decolonial Peace into the Everyday: A Feminist Intervention	1
Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration: Iraq’s Security Sector from the US Invasion to the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect	1
Building Trust Through Care: A Feminist Take on Inclusion in Multi-Track Mediation	1
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	1
The Responsibility to Protect Debate: An Enduring Black Hole	1
Including Civil Society in Peace Negotiations: The War in the Ukraine Donbas Region (2014–21)	1
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	1
Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much? The Problem-Capacity-Nexus in Tunisia’s Transitional Justice Process	1
Best Practices in Security Sector Reform: EU Efforts to Change Ukraine's Public Order Policing	1
Capitalising on UNSCR 1325: The Construction of Best Practices for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	1
The African Union, France, and Conflict Management in Mali: Preferences, Actions, and Narrations	1
Blockages to Peace Formation in Latin America: The Role of Criminal Governance	1
The Anthropocene and the Possibilities for Creating a Pluriversal Politics	1
‘Pragmatic Peacekeeping’ in Practice: Exit Liberal Peacekeeping, Enter UN Support Missions?	1
Security Force Assistance to Fragile States: A Framework of Analysis	1