Building Democracy While Building Peace

Yet the success rate of postwar democratic transitions is not encouraging. Since 1989, the international community has launched nineteen major peacebuilding operations, which are defined here as missions mandated by the United Nations or another international organization that are aimed at both keep...

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Published in:Journal of democracy 2011, Vol.22 (1), p.81-95
Main Author: Zurcher, Christoph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bargaining
Civil war
Democracy
Peace
War
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Summary:Yet the success rate of postwar democratic transitions is not encouraging. Since 1989, the international community has launched nineteen major peacebuilding operations, which are defined here as missions mandated by the United Nations or another international organization that are aimed at both keeping the peace and ultimately establishing democracy in a postconflict situation; deployed for at least six months; and involving at least five-hundred military personnel in the field (see Table 1). [...] more realistic expectations should give rise to a more realistic appraisal of the good things that peacebuilding can and has achieved.9 While robust peacebuilding missions perhaps cannot socially engineer liberal democracies, they can secure the end of violence, create conditions that allow refugees to return home, provide muchneeded emergency aid, and help to rebuild state capacities.
ISSN:1045-5736
1086-3214
1086-3214
DOI:10.1353/jod.2011.a412895