To what extent is the UN able to build ‘positive’ peace rather than simply enforce ‘negative’ peace?

 Demonstration of empirical knowledge: introducing your case studies in as much

detail as necessary.

 Demonstration of analytical skill: discussing the importance of particular policy areas within a conceptual framework linking different aspects, and understandings, of post-conflict reconstruction.

 Demonstration of evaluative skill: offering a critical evaluation of what has been attempted and achieved in terms of post conflict reconstruction strategies.

Coursework will be assessed with respect to each of the elements listed above. Extra credit will be given for depth of research, critical thinking, and originality.

: Building positive peace: The UN and peacebuilding post cold war

· Michael Barnett et al. (2007) ‘Peacebuilding: What’s in a Name?’ Global Governance, 13(3): 35-58.

· Eva Bertram, (1995) ‘Reinventing Governments: the Promise and Perils of United Nations Peacebuilding,’ Journal of Conflict Resolution 39(3): 387-418.

Consider the following questions

· What reforms of the UN and its relations with member states would help tackle the shortcomings identified in these articles?

· What kinds of peace can the UN deliver in within existing constraints?

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Agenda for Peace1995, second edition, (New York: UN, 1995).

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, “An Agenda for Peace: One Year Later,” Orbis 37 (1993):323-332.

Johan Galtung, “Peace, Violence and Peace Research,” Journal of Peace Research 6.3 (1969),

Johan Galtung, “Twenty-five years of peace research,” Journal of Peace Research, 22:2 (1985), 141-85.

Oliver Richmond, The Transformation of Peace, (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005).

J.P. Lederach, Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies, (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1997).

Ho-Won Jeong, Peace and Conflict Studies, an Introduction (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).

Roland Paris, “Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism,” International Security 22.2 (1997).

Roland Paris “International Peacebuilding and the mission civilisatrice,” Review of International Studies, 28 (2002): 637-656.

Kumar Rupesinghe, Civil Wars, Civil Peace, an Introduction to Conflict Resolution (London: Pluto, 1998).

A.B. Fetherstone, “Peacekeeping, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: a Reconsideration of Theoretical Frameworks,” International Peacekeeping 7.1 (2000): 190-218.

Roland Paris, “Broadening the Study of Peace Operations,” International Studies Review, 2.3 (2000), 27-44.

Roland Paris, At War’s End, (Cambridge: CUP, 2004) chs. 1 and 2.

Oliver Ramsbotham, “Reflections on UN Post-Settlement Peacebuilding,” International Peacekeeping 7.1 (2000), 169-189.