The UN and Liberal Peacebuilding:Consensus and Challenges

  • Oliver Richmond
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Abstract

The elite level, top-down, processes that have developed in order to construct the liberal peace in conflict and post-conflict zones via the United Nations (UN) and an alliance of associated actors, represent a loose, liberal ‘peacebuilding consensus’. This is reflected in much of the UN, agency, donor, and NGO documentation since the 1990s,1 as well as in much of the key contributions to the literature, both supportive and critical.2 Yet, what does the ‘peace’ that is being installed in post-conflict zones through UN peace operations entail?

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United Nations United Nations Development Programme North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Council Resolution Peace Operation 
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