Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Peacebuilding: Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform

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Nadine Ansorg Eleanor Gordon

Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Peacebuilding

Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform

Nadine Ansorg, Eleanor Gordon

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Crime & criminology; Politics & government; Warfare & defence

Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little regard for the context in post-conflict societies. Despite recurrent criticism, SSR practices of international organisations and bilateral donors often remain focused on state institutions, and often do not sufficiently attend to alternative providers of security or existing normative frameworks of security.

This edited collection explores three aspects that add an important piece to the puzzle of what constitutes effective Security Sector Reform (SSR). First, the variation of norm adoption, norm contestation and norm imposition in post-conflict countries that might explain the mixed results in terms of peacebuilding. Second, the multitude of different security actors within and beyond the state which often leads to multiple patterns of co-operation and contestation within reform programmes. Third, how both the multiplicity of and tension between norms and actors further complicate efforts to build peace or, as complexity theory would posit, influence the complex and non-linear social system that is the conflict-affected environment.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.

Edited by: Nadine Ansorg, Eleanor Gordon
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9780367637606
ISBN 10: 036763760X
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nadine Ansorg is Senior Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, UK, and Research Associate at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany. Eleanor Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Development at Monash University, Australia. She has spent 20 years engaged as a practitioner and scholar addressing inclusive ways in which to build security and justice after conflict.