OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is 6. 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
Trans-Scalar Ethnographic Peace Research: Understanding the Invisible Drivers of Complex Conflict and Complex Peace	15
‘The Failure of Peacebuilding in Iraq: The Role of Consociationalism and Political Settlements’	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
Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence	12
Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces	12
From Recognition to Redistribution? Protest Movements in Iraq in the Age of ‘New Civil Society’	12
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
‘Pragmatic Peacekeeping’ in Practice: Exit Liberal Peacekeeping, Enter UN Support Missions?	11
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 Spaces of Local Agreements: Towards a New Imaginary of the Peace Process	10
Unsettling Peace: The Settler-Colonial Challenge to the Local Turn	9
Soundscapes of Mostar: Space and Art Beyond the Divided City	9
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond	9

Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration: Iraq’s Security Sector from the US Invasion to the Covid-19 Pandemic	8
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	8
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
Conflict Disruption: Reassessing the Peaceandconflict System	7
The Strong ‘Weak State’: French Statebuilding and Military Rule in Mali	7
Introducing Space for Peace	6
Subverting Peace: The Origins and Legacies of de-Ba’athification in Iraq	6
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