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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Perpetual Peacebuilding: A New Paradigm to Move Beyond the Linearity of Liberal Peacebuilding	48
The ‘South’ Speaks Back: Exposing the Ethical Stakes of Dismissing Resilience in Conflict-Affected Contexts	31
The Local, the ‘Indigenous’ and the Limits of Rethinking Peacebuilding	27
Security Force Assistance to Fragile States: A Framework of Analysis	20
Space for Peace: A Research Agenda	19
Blockages to Peace Formation in Latin America: The Role of Criminal Governance	18
‘The Failure of Peacebuilding in Iraq: The Role of Consociationalism and Political Settlements’	15
Trans-Scalar Ethnographic Peace Research: Understanding the Invisible Drivers of Complex Conflict and Complex Peace	15
Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa	14
Evaluating the Pitfalls of External Statebuilding in Post-2003 Iraq (2003–2021)	14
Fragmented We Fall: Security Sector Cohesion and the Impact of Foreign Security Force Assistance in Mali	13
From Recognition to Redistribution? Protest Movements in Iraq in the Age of ‘New Civil Society’	12
Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence	12
Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces	12
‘Pragmatic Peacekeeping’ in Practice: Exit Liberal Peacekeeping, Enter UN Support Missions?	11
De-internationalizing Hybrid Peace: State-Traditional Authority Collaboration and Conflict Resolution in Northern Ghana	11
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	11
The Spaces of Local Agreements: Towards a New Imaginary of the Peace Process	10
Building Peace in the Shadow of War: Women-to-Women Diplomacy as Alternative Peacebuilding Practice in Myanmar	10
Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much? The Problem-Capacity-Nexus in Tunisia’s Transitional Justice Process	10
Practices of Intervention: Assembling Security Force Assistance in Lebanon	10
The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect	10
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond	9
Unsettling Peace: The Settler-Colonial Challenge to the Local Turn	9
Soundscapes of Mostar: Space and Art Beyond the Divided City	9

The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	8
Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration: Iraq’s Security Sector from the US Invasion to the Covid-19 Pandemic	8
Conflict Disruption: Reassessing the Peaceandconflict System	7
The Strong ‘Weak State’: French Statebuilding and Military Rule in Mali	7
Religious Peacebuilding in Iraq: Prospects and Challenges from the Hawza	7
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	7
Storytelling: Restorative Approaches to Post-2003 Iraq Peacebuilding	7
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	7
Analysing (In)formal Relations and Networks in Security Force Assistance: The Case of Niger	7
Disturbing a Discipline: Towards Pluriversal Peace and Conflict Studies	7
Drug Smuggling and the Stability of Fragile States. The Diverging Trajectories of Mali and Niger	7
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies	6
Navigating Ownership in the Context of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Mali: A Comparison of External Actors’ Approaches	6
Introducing Space for Peace	6
Subverting Peace: The Origins and Legacies of de-Ba’athification in Iraq	6
Thinking about Resilience through the Interdisciplinary Lens of Connectivity: A Study of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	5
Applying Principal-Agent Theory to Security Force Assistance: The Atypical Case of Post-2015 Tunisia	5
Colombia’s Program to Substitute Crops Used for Illegal Purposes: Its Impact on Security and Development	5
Building Decolonial Peace into the Everyday: A Feminist Intervention	5
When a State Seeks a Nation and a Nation Seeks a State – EU Accession in the Foreign Policies of Montenegro and Serbia	5
Decolonial Politics: State, Statelessness, and Coexistence in Peace	5
Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	5
Protecting Women from Violence in the United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites, South Sudan?	5
Security Force Assistance to The Gambia Following the 2017 Political Transition: A Recipe for Further Fragmentation?	5
Macedonia, Bosnia and Kosovo: Contested Statehood and the EU	5
Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa	4
How Many Turns Make a Revolution? Whither the ‘Dialogue of the Deaf’ Between Peacebuilding Scholars and Practitioners	4
Civil Sanctuary: Clearly Marked Spaces of Civility in Divided Urban Settings	4
Not Just at Home or In The Grave: (Mis)Understanding Women’s Rights in Afghanistan	4
UN Reforms for an Era of Pragmatic Peacekeeping	4
Humanitarian Shapeshifting: Navigation, Brokerage and Access in Eastern DR Congo	4
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	4
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	4
Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice: An Interdisciplinary Framing	4
Between the Balkans and Europe: The State/Nation Problem in the Post-Yugoslav States	4
From Hybridity to Networked Relationality: Actors, Ideologies and the Legacies of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement	4
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	4
Imagining Localism in Post-Conflict Syria: Prefigurative Reconstruction Plans and the Clash Between Liberal Epistemology and Illiberal Conflict	4
The Palliative Role of Reparations in Reconciling Societies with the Past: Redressing Victims or Consolidating the State?	4
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	3
Tolerance as Implicit Order: Militias and Sexual Violence as Practice in Indonesian Counterinsurgency Operations	3
Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	3
(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali	3
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	3
The Case for Transformative Reparations: In Pursuit of Structural Socio-Economic Reform in Post-Conflict Societies	3
Gaza and the Political and Moral Failure of the Responsibility to Protect	3
Devolution or Decapitation? Decentralization During Conflict in Ukraine	3
New Visions, Critiques, and Hope in the Post-Liberal Age? A Call for Rethinking Intervention and Statebuilding	2
The African Union, France, and Conflict Management in Mali: Preferences, Actions, and Narrations	2
Sustaining Legitimacy of Unrecognized Statehood: How Turkish Cypriot Elites Cope with Internal and External Challenges	2

The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	2
Remaking the Law to Protect Civilians: Overlapping Jurisdictions and Contested Spaces in UN Protection of Civilian Sites	2
Capitalising on UNSCR 1325: The Construction of Best Practices for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	2
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	2
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	2
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	2
The Responsibility to Protect Debate: An Enduring Black Hole	2
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	2
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’: The Role of Socio-technical Imaginaries in Myanmar	2
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	2