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

Article	Citations
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	28
Correction	27
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	25
From Euphoria to Disenchantment: Temporality and the Changing Local Perceptions of International Interventions in Mali	23
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	20
How Is Peace Made?	16
Correction	15
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	15
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	14
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	14
Parallel Worlds: the Theory and Practice of ‘Ownership’ in Women, Peace and Security	14
Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy	12
A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers	11
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance	11
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
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
Post-military Futures: Plans and Failure of the Peace Operations’ Infrastructure Handover in Darfur	10
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	10
Engaging Reluctant Citizens: Parent States and Legitimacy during Critical Junctures	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	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
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	8

Correction	8
Combat Legitimacy and Robust Peace Operations: Calibrating Military Protection of Civilians	8
Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	8
Everyday Peace Formation from Below in Rural Georgia	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
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	7
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	7
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	6
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	6
‘We Don't Want Another Observer Mission’: The East African Force and the Politics of Deployment in the DRC	5
The African Union, France, and Conflict Management in Mali: Preferences, Actions, and Narrations	5
Multitrack Diplomacy and Inclusion: Is Patchworked Peacemaking Really a Way Forward?	5
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	5
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	5
Power Peace: The Resolution of the Syrian Conflict in a Post-Liberal Era of Peacemaking	5
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	5
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	5
Variations of Peace in Colombia	5
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	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
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	4
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	4
How do ‘Frozen Conflicts’ over Territory Defrost? A Three-tier Analysis of Peace, War, and Status Quo Outcomes	4
Peacemaking as Statebuilding: Colombia’s 2016 Agreement in a Comparative Perspective	4
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index	4
A World Without Alternatives: R2P Meets TINA	4
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	4
Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions	4
Towards Emancipatory Statebuilding in Kosovo? Spatial and Aesthetic Community Building After war	4
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	3
The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect	3
Norms and Peace in a Turbulent World	3
Peace education, religious discourse, and scientific enquiry: dialogue and collaboration from eastern European contexts	3
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	3
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	3
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	3
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	3
Classification and Compensation. How the Conflict Type Shapes Reparations in Post-War Justice	3
International Recognition Meets Areas of Limited Statehood: Practices and Effects on Hybrid Actors in Post-2011 Libya	3
R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson	3
(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali	3
Careless Talk Costs Lives: The Causes and Effects of Marginalising Peacebuilding Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities	2
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond	2
Sustaining Legitimacy of Unrecognized Statehood: How Turkish Cypriot Elites Cope with Internal and External Challenges	2
On Statehood and Sovereignty: Towards a Critical Appraisal of State Formation and International Statebuilding	2
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	2
Perceptions of Peace Operations in Mozambique: Help or Hindrance to Negotiating a New Social Contract?	2
Invoking ‘the Customary’ in the Formalization of Land Reform in Liberia and Sierra Leone	2

War, Ontology and Bodies: Beyond Human-Centred Approaches	2
Adverse Incorporation and Local Economies of Peace	2
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’: The Role of Socio-technical Imaginaries in Myanmar	2
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	2
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	2
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya	2
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	2
Counterframing Truth? Interactions in Art and Justice in Post-Conflict Cambodia	2
Tackling Terrorism in Africa: US Remote Interventionism and the Fight against Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in Kenya	2
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	2
Testing the Multitrack-Inclusion Nexus: Evaluating European Union Local Engagement in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh	2
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	2
Women and the War on Drugs: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Coca Growers’ Everyday Experiences	2
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	2
‘Pactantes y no pactadas’: Gender Mainstreaming and the Political Ceiling of Colombian Women's Role in the Havana Dialogues	2
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	2
Violence and Security in Central Asia: Conflict Dynamics and Everyday Survival	2
Correction	2