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Network-centric Peacebuilding

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The theoretical discussion and case studies so far in the book indicate that social networks are subject to constant change, redesign and reorientation. While it is tempting to place ‘war’ and ‘peace’ as antagonistic absolutes at the centre of international relations, network and complexity theory indicate that this is not only unable to explain the emergence and cessation of violent conflicts, but it is also unhelpful in terminating violent conflicts. Violence is a major component of human identity and social network formation, and in this sense it has to be understood as having both integrative and disintegrative functions. Peacebuilding has to be understood not as a process with the aim of ending a violent conflict by discovering, addressing and solving issues that appear to be at the heart of a war or civil war, but by reprogramming social networks. Rather than to approach international relations as a field dominated by rigidity and unalterable dynamics it should be approached as describing an environment in which complex-adaptive networks are the norm, and in which constant change and alteration dominate.

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Kramer, C.R. (2017). Network-centric Peacebuilding. In: Network Theory and Violent Conflicts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41393-8_7

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