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How peacebuilding, a concept originally formulated in academic circles, became so influential in the United Nations to the extent of influencing its concrete practices? This book argues that the way peacebuilding appeared and gained prominence in the UN in the early 1990s had a profound and lasting influence in the Organisation’s provision of support to societies affected by armed conflict, not only influencing the core meaning underlying peacebuilding but also resisting to substantial changes in that meaning. The introduction presents the book’s research puzzle, summarizes its theoretical and methodological approaches, and presents the book outline.

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  1. 1.

    Herein understood as field operations deployed “to preserve peace, however fragile, where fighting has been halted and to assist in implementing agreements achieved by the peacemakers” (DPKO and DFS 2008: 97). Peacebuilding tasks are often, although not always, carried out by multi-dimensional peacekeeping operations, which comprise a “a mix of military, police and civilian components working together to lay the foundations of a sustainable peace” (DPKO and DFS 2008: 97).

  2. 2.

    In what concerns the UN, a particularly interesting initiative on the influence of ideas in world politics was the UN Intellectual History Project, which produced 17 studies over a period of more than 10 years focusing on different social and economic ideas connected with the Organisation. A summary with some conclusions of the project was published as Jolly et al. (2005). In IR, the recent attention to the role of ideas in world politics is linked with the development of constructivism, a theoretical framework further explored in the following chapter.

  3. 3.

    Given their focus on developments in the field, it is puzzling that some of those studies overemphasised desk research over in loco first-hand observation. Compare, for instance, the heavy reliance on fieldwork found in Richmond and Franks (2009) with the statistical methodology adopted by Doyle and Sambanis (2000).

  4. 4.

    Karns (2012) is a notable exception, as she uses the concept of peacebuilding in An Agenda for Peace as a case study to analyse the agency, autonomy and leadership of the Secretary-General and the Secretariat in world politics. I only came across her research, in the format of an undated working paper, as I was finalising my own research. Some of the sources in her chapter were also used in this book; some of the individuals Karns and I interviewed are the same.

  5. 5.

    For good references, see, among many others, the works of Richmond (2002, 2004a, b, 2005, 2011, 2013), Roberts (2011), Mac Ginty (2006, 2011), Chandler (2006, 2010), Richmond and Franks (2009), Duffield (2001, 2007), Pugh (1995, 2005) and Paris (1997, 2002, 2004). For good edited volumes exploring crosscutting themes or case studies, see, for instance, Campbell et al. (2011), Tadjbakhsh (2011), Richmond (2010), Newman et al. (2009b), and Pugh et al. (2008). For literature reviews, see, for instance, Chandler (2011), Paris (2010), and Cooper (2007).

  6. 6.

    See also Traub (2006: esp. 359–398), who accompanied Annan on several occasions during this period and describes important events in the run-up to the 2005 World Summit.

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Cavalcante, F. (2019). Introduction. In: Peacebuilding in the United Nations. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03864-9_1

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