OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Peacebuilding is 0. 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
Fierce and accommodationist divided cities: understanding right-to-the-city protests in Beirut and Manama	11
Narratives of change and repair: how the study of storytelling in the social sciences can inspire peacebuilding research	10
Review: peace and security in the Balkans: a local perspective Review: peace and security in the Balkans: a local perspective , edited by Nemanja Džuverović and Věra Sto	10
Rebel politics: a political sociology of armed struggle in Myanmar’s borderlands	7
When God stops fighting: how religious violence ends When God stops fighting: how religious violence ends , by Mark Juergensmeyer, Oakland, California, University of Cal	7
Peace and rural development in Colombia	7
The many conceptions of post-conflict reconciliation: learning from practitioners	6
Speaking with a ‘soft voice’: professional and pragmatic civilities amongst South Sudanese NGO leaders	6
‘Good personhood’ in Kosovo: a Serbian perspective from below	6
Honyomiji: the local women’s peacebuilding institution in South Sudan	5
Post-conflict reconstruction and local government	5
Local agreements - an introduction to the special issue	5
On violence, the everyday, and social reproduction: Agnes and Myanmar’s transition	5
Feel the grass grow: ecologies of slow peace in Colombia Feel the grass grow: ecologies of slow peace in Colombia , by Angela Jill Lederach, Stanford, California, USA, S	5
Dissolving conflict. Local peace agreements and armed conflict transitions	4
Biopolitical peacebuilding	4
Same but different: the role of local leaders in the peace processes in liberia and sierra leone	3
Urban restructuring and the reproduction of spaces of violence in Belfast	3
Third space and spontaneous contact in a divided city: evidence from Jerusalem	3
Good ones and bad ones: gendered distortions and aspirations in research with conflict-affected youth in Liberia	3
Pluck, luck and peacemaking	3
Everyday peace: rethinking typologies of social practice and local agency	3
Violence and hegemonic masculinities in Timor-Leste – on the challenges of using theoretical frameworks in conflict-affected societies	3
Is recognition the answer? Exploring the barriers for successful reintegration of ex-combatants into civil society in Northern Ireland and Colombia	3
Collective reincorporation of FARC-EP and social and solidarity economies: beyond moral imagination	3

Interviews on masculinities in post-conflict contexts as a process of three translations	3
Gender and citizenship in transitional justice: everyday experiences of reparation and reintegration in Colombia Gender and citizenship in transitional justice: everyday experiences of	3
The search for a comprehensive political settlement in Transnistria: explaining the failure to reach agreement	2
Peacebuilding through women’s community development Wee women’s work in Northern Ireland Peacebuilding through women’s community development Wee women’s work in Northern Ireland	2
Controlling victims: forced exhumations in the Peruvian Andes	2
Two and a half approaches to the local turn in peacebuilding	2
Why peacebuilding is condemned to fail if it ignores ethnicization. The case of Colombia	2
Elite support for peace agreements: evidence from Colombia	2
Hybrid governance in South Sudan: the negotiated state in practice	2
Competition for control of the state and the transitional justice agenda among Tunisian civil society organisations	2
Peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and the ‘balance of bureaucratic power’ in Kofi Annan’s Secretariat: a micro-history of two United Nations departments	2
Enforced silence or mindful non-violent action? Everyday peace and South Korean victims of civilian massacres in the Korean War	2
Building a peace we don’t know? The power of subjunctive technologies in digital peacebuilding	2
The frontlines of peace: an insider’s guide to changing the world	2
‘The ‘local-visual turn’: understanding peacebuilding in post-conflict societies using photo-elicitation	2
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people’s attitudes to peace Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people’s attitudes to peace , b	2
Re-theorising the participation-security nexus in war-to-peace transitions	1
The challenges and opportunities of researching masculinities during peace processes	1
Rethinking peace and violence from the favelas	1
Autonomy in the pursuit of peace: demarcation and territorial accommodation in Indonesia and the Philippines	1
Memory, violence and post-conflict reconstruction: rebuilding and reimagining Mosul	1
Embodied reconciliation: a new research agenda	1
Gendering peace: UN peacebuilding in Timor-Leste	1
Reclaiming the sacred: towards a holographic notion of power and peace	1
Dialogue for peace: the production of knowledge and norms between international practices and local ownership in Ukraine	1
Post-ISIL reconciliation in Iraq and the local anatomy of national grievances: the case of Yathrib	1
Sulhu as local peacebuilding	1
From the river to the sea: Palestine and Israel in the shadow of ‘peace’	1
Local peace governance in post-war Timor-Leste: reconceiving governance ambiguity as a formalised political unsettlement	1
Reevaluating religious understandings of reconciliation: a study in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
A tale of two commissions: explaining the different trajectories of human rights movements in Korea	1
Interpreter training in conflict and post-conflict scenarios	1
Power or peace? Restoration or emancipation through peace processes	1
Digital peacekeeping, cyborg soldiers and militarised masculinities: a posthuman critique	1
Civility as collective self-care in Nablus (Palestine): face-to-face interactions in the shadow of war	1
In the aftermath of Genocide: Guatemala’s failed reconciliation	1
Seeing peace like a city: local visions and diplomatic proposals for future solutions	1
Between the duty to prosecute atrocities and domestic precedents of dealing with the past in the era of the International Criminal Court	1
In-group competition & out-group cooperation: cooperative players in protracted ethnic conflict resolution	1
The rule of law, the local turn, and re-thinking accountability in security sector reform processes	1
Correction	1
Local non-violent strategies amid Guatemala’s post-accord violence: understanding the potential and limitations in poor urban neighbourhoods	1
Introduction to the special issue: in/civility in peace and conflict	1
State (ir)responsibility and the (un)making of transformative reparations at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia	1
Filling the gap: customary institutions as governance actors	1
Imagining peace and enacting utopias in Puerto Rico	1
Shaping violences: state formation, symbolic violence and the link between public and private interests in Brazil	1
Scrutinising UN peacebuilding: entangled peace and its limits	1
Active looking: images in peace mediation	1
Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes	0

Sport and strategic peacebuilding: Northern Ireland and Korea compared	0
Dancing conflicts, unfolding peaces: movement as method to elicit conflict transformation	0
How local are local agreements? Shaping local agreements as a new form of third-party intervention in protracted conflicts	0
Imagining national security through the body’s organisation: conscientious objectors in South Korea	0
Investigating the links between civil war, peace and foreign direct investment: a case study of Sri Lanka’s tourism sector	0
Forum Theatre for Reconciliation: a drama-based approach to conflict transformation applied to socio-environmental struggles in Bolivia	0
Peace communication: a transdisciplinary perspective for peace at the intersection of cultural, peace and communication studies	0
The glaring gaps: environmental violence and peace research and practice	0
‘This coconut was the one that finally worked’: cursing for peace and justice in Sri Lanka	0
Pragmatism, courage, and ideals of peace in times of war	0
What are they writing for? Peace research as an impermeable metropole	0
Local agreements as a process: the example of local talks in Homs in Syria	0
Derry girls and the politics of the everyday: theorising for a more youth-inclusive approach to peacebuilding	0
Youth as generational configurations: Conceptualising conflicts along generation-based dynamics	0
Ontological security and protracted conflict in frontier societies: towards a trans-local turn in peacebuilding	0
Unspeakable: reflections on relational approaches to research in post-conflict settings	0
Galkaio, Somalia: bridging the border	0
Modern concept of peacebuilding and the idea of peacebuilding in Igbo pre-colonial society in Africa	0
Re-conceptualising competitive victimhood in reconciliation processes: the case of Northern Ireland	0
Beyond intragroup betrayal during intergroup relational peacebuilding	0
Swimming against the tide: transfer from civil society consultations to track 1	0
Architecture, politics and peacebuilding in Medellín	0
Why language matters? Colombia’s passing theory of peace	0
Making peace to sustain war: the Astana Process and Syria’s illiberal peace	0
Peacebuilding paradigms: the impact of theoretical diversity on implementing sustainable peace	0
No peace without justice? Two perspectives on historical justice after genocide	0
Review of the book interactive peacemaking: a people-centred approach Review of the book interactive peacemaking: a people-centred approach , by Susan H. Allen, Routledg	0
Mine clearance, peacebuilding and development: interactions between sustainable development goals and infrastructure in Angola	0
Why did Turkey’s peace process (2013-2015) fail? Four explanations	0
Ilusión as a temporal dimension of hope in Colombia	0
Occupying Space in the Kirkuk Bazaar: an intersectional analysis	0
From global norms to national politics: decoupling transitional justice in Colombia	0
Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities	0
Beyond politics: in/civilities of ‘non-political’ peacebuilding for Kashmir	0
Young protesters’ ambivalence about violence in the 2015 crisis in Burundi: local legacies of conflict and generational change	0
International relations, sociolinguistics and the ‘everyday’: a linguistic ethnography of peace-building through language education	0
The banality of infrastructural racism through the lens of peace and conflict studies	0
Reflexive postliberal peace: a cultural paradigm shift in Israel’s peacebuilding	0
Understanding higher education as a conflictual field. Situational dynamics of peace and conflict in Senegalese universities	0
Reintegration of ex-combatants in a militarized society	0
Constitution-making and statebuilding in Kosovo: we (you) the people	0
Letting the state off the hook? Dilemmas of holding the state to account in times of transition	0
Master peace: expert power and techno-morals in Lebanon	0
Troubling masculinities: a feminist, relational approach to researching sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers	0
Capturing post-conflict anxieties: towards an analytical framework	0
What knowledge counts? Local humanitarian knowledge production in protracted conflicts. A Central African Republic case study	0
Coordinated ethnographic peace research: assessing complex peace interventions writ large and over time	0
Peacekeeping’s conflict urbanism: a decade of urban change in Mali	0
Identity, Resilience and Social Justice: Peace-making for a Neoliberal Global Order	0
The fragmentation of the security-development nexus: the UK government’s approach to security and development 2015-2022	0
Stigmatisation as settler colonialism: designating humanitarian and civic society organisations in Palestine as security threats	0
Humanitarian diplomacy as moral history	0
Disruptive hope: the communal repertoires of violence resistance in Cúcuta	0
An empirical take on the debates on peacebuilding’s failure: the case study of the Ivorian Dialogue Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2011–2014)	0
Navigating Dahiyeh, negotiating everyday peace: mediation practices across Beirut’s Southern Suburbs	0
Review of International relations then and now, 2nd edition	0
Peaces of music: understanding the varieties of peace that music-making can foster	0
Navigating colonial debris: structural challenges for Colombia’s peace accord	0
Gender as an analytic lens for agonistic peace: insights from Colombia’s Truth Commission	0
Photography and everyday peacebuilding. Examining the impact of photographing everyday peace in Colombia	0
Locating violence-resistant masculinities in sites of conflict	0
Review of reconstructions: the troubles in photographs and words	0
Methodology of the excluded: conspiracy as discourse in the eastern DRC	0
Open-pit peace: the power of extractive industries in post-conflict transitions	0
Religion, peace and justice: the effects of transitional justice on religious armed conflict resolution	0
Deepening understandings of success and failure in post-conflict reconciliation	0
Correction	0
Geographies of peace in the wake of non-war violence in the city: Agir pour la Paix in a marginalised neighbourhood in France	0
Peace negotiation process and outcome: considering Colombia and Turkey in comparative perspective	0
The art of ‘tick boxes’: quantitative audience evaluation methods of documentary theatre for ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland	0
Making sense of peace in exile? Displaced people’s intersectional perceptions of peace	0
Colonial power and decolonial peace	0
Global norms and local action: the campaigns to end violence against women in Africa	0
New avenues in peace implementation research: actors, geolocation, and time	0
Non-state conflicts, peacekeeping, and the conclusion of local agreements	0
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women’s mobilization in violent contexts High-risk feminism in Colombia: women’s mobilization in violent contexts , by Julia Zulver, New	0
The impact of state abdication on transitional justice: when non-state actors and other states fill the post-transition gap	0
Micro-level experiences, understandings and visions of peace in Sri Lanka’s war victory	0
Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum	0