International intervention in failing states that threaten peace and security does not by itself make the world safer. Too often, when intervening forces are un

As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable peace, practitioners and peacebuilders are faced with the thrilling possibilities and challen

Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, a

This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and man