OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Peacebuilding is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Review: peace and security in the Balkans: a local perspective Review: peace and security in the Balkans: a local perspective , edited by Nemanja Džuverović and Věra Sto	11
The challenges and opportunities of researching masculinities during peace processes	10
Pluck, luck and peacemaking	10
The many conceptions of post-conflict reconciliation: learning from practitioners	10
Dialogue for peace: the production of knowledge and norms between international practices and local ownership in Ukraine	9
Photography and everyday peacebuilding. Examining the impact of photographing everyday peace in Colombia	8
Why peacebuilding is condemned to fail if it ignores ethnicization. The case of Colombia	8
Imagining national security through the body’s organisation: conscientious objectors in South Korea	7
Local non-violent strategies amid Guatemala’s post-accord violence: understanding the potential and limitations in poor urban neighbourhoods	7
Non-state conflicts, peacekeeping, and the conclusion of local agreements	6
Galkaio, Somalia: bridging the border	6
Self-led peacebuilding as a collective action problem: evidence from Somaliland (1991–2001)	6
Privatised starvation: the Gaza humanitarian fund as a tool of colonial erasure	6
The theory and practice of international relations: the enduring legacy of A. J. R. (John) Groom for international studies	6
Understanding territorial withdrawal: Israeli occupations and exits	5
Forum Theatre for Reconciliation: a drama-based approach to conflict transformation applied to socio-environmental struggles in Bolivia	5
Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum	5
Ripeness theory and the Cyprus conflict: understanding how comfortable stalemate and external pressure influence conflict resolution	5
Deepening understandings of success and failure in post-conflict reconciliation	5
Digital peacebuilding in other worlds: the local-digital nexus in Kenya and Nigeria	5
Good ones and bad ones: gendered distortions and aspirations in research with conflict-affected youth in Liberia	4
In-group competition & out-group cooperation: cooperative players in protracted ethnic conflict resolution	4
Memorialising ‘Pionirska Street’: survivor-led processes and barriers in inventing memorials of resistance to wartime sexual violence in Visegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Lost in the crowd: re-humanising crowdsourcing in the context of post-digital peacebuilding	4
Unspeakable: reflections on relational approaches to research in post-conflict settings	4

Becoming ‘Post’-conflict space(s): Spatialising peace and conflict between Mirali and Razmak in North Waziristan, Pakistan	4
Collective reincorporation of FARC-EP and social and solidarity economies: beyond moral imagination	4
‘No Justice, No Peace’: the political in two mutually constitutive concepts	4
Sulhu as local peacebuilding	4
Correction	4
Post-digital transitional justice, artificial intelligence-enabled digital investigations, and pluriversal peacebuilding	3
‘This coconut was the one that finally worked’: cursing for peace and justice in Sri Lanka	3
Correction	3
Introduction to the special issue: in/civility in peace and conflict	3
Embodied reconciliation: a new research agenda	3
Disruptive hope: the communal repertoires of violence resistance in Cúcuta	3
(Dis)connected? Women’s agency and meaningful participation in the digital space	3
Beyond politics: in/civilities of ‘non-political’ peacebuilding for Kashmir	3
The art of ‘tick boxes’: quantitative audience evaluation methods of documentary theatre for ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland	2
When God stops fighting: how religious violence ends	2
Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes	2
Young protesters’ ambivalence about violence in the 2015 crisis in Burundi: local legacies of conflict and generational change	2
Methodology of the excluded: conspiracy as discourse in the eastern DRC	2
The peacekeeper’s challenge: innovation in meta-organisations	2
Peace communication: a transdisciplinary perspective for peace at the intersection of cultural, peace and communication studies	2
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women’s mobilization in violent contexts High-risk feminism in Colombia: women’s mobilization in violent contexts , by Julia Zulver, New	1
‘The ‘local-visual turn’: understanding peacebuilding in post-conflict societies using photo-elicitation	1
Ontological security and protracted conflict in frontier societies: towards a trans-local turn in peacebuilding	1
Constitution-making and statebuilding in Kosovo: we (you) the people	1
Review of International relations then and now, 2nd edition	1
The fragmentation of the security-development nexus: the UK government’s approach to security and development 2015-2022	1
Peace and the pluriverse: interrogating (post-)digital peacebuilding	1
Why did Turkey’s peace process (2013-2015) fail? Four explanations	1
The banality of infrastructural racism through the lens of peace and conflict studies	1
Memory, violence and post-conflict reconstruction: rebuilding and reimagining Mosul	1
The search for a comprehensive political settlement in Transnistria: explaining the failure to reach agreement	1
No peace without justice? Two perspectives on historical justice after genocide	1
Investigating the links between civil war, peace and foreign direct investment: a case study of Sri Lanka’s tourism sector	1
Navigating colonial debris: structural challenges for Colombia’s peace accord	1
Violence and hegemonic masculinities in Timor-Leste – on the challenges of using theoretical frameworks in conflict-affected societies	1
Capturing post-conflict anxieties: towards an analytical framework	1
Autonomy in the pursuit of peace: demarcation and territorial accommodation in Indonesia and the Philippines	1
Correction	1
Swimming against the tide: transfer from civil society consultations to track 1	1
A ‘youth-ed’ peace? A framework for understanding youth peacebuilding	1
How local are local agreements? Shaping local agreements as a new form of third-party intervention in protracted conflicts	1
Fierce and accommodationist divided cities: understanding right-to-the-city protests in Beirut and Manama	1
Speaking with a ‘soft voice’: professional and pragmatic civilities amongst South Sudanese NGO leaders	1
Navigating Dahiyeh, negotiating everyday peace: mediation practices across Beirut’s Southern Suburbs	0
Imagining peace and enacting utopias in Puerto Rico	0
Locating violence-resistant masculinities in sites of conflict	0
Patterns of sustaining peace: the complex impact of peacebuilding institutions in post-conflict societies	0
Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities	0
Re-theorising the participation-security nexus in war-to-peace transitions	0
Reevaluating religious understandings of reconciliation: a study in Bosnia and Herzegovina	0

Religion, peace and justice: the effects of transitional justice on religious armed conflict resolution	0
Peace positionalities: exploring the use of reflexive positionality statements in peace research	0
Gender as an analytic lens for agonistic peace: insights from Colombia’s Truth Commission	0
Gendering food rights in peacebuilding: insights from Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement	0
Envisioning cities, envisioning peace	0
Hierarchies in death: coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims in the context of October 7 and the war on Gaza	0
Interviews on masculinities in post-conflict contexts as a process of three translations	0
Ilusión as a temporal dimension of hope in Colombia	0
Same but different: the role of local leaders in the peace processes in liberia and sierra leone	0
New avenues in peace implementation research: actors, geolocation, and time	0
Crowdsourcing bullets: the role of digital forms of activism for conflict mitigation	0
Shaping violences: state formation, symbolic violence and the link between public and private interests in Brazil	0
Civility as collective self-care in Nablus (Palestine): face-to-face interactions in the shadow of war	0
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people’s attitudes to peace Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people’s attitudes to peace , b	0
Building a peace we don’t know? The power of subjunctive technologies in digital peacebuilding	0
Micro-level experiences, understandings and visions of peace in Sri Lanka’s war victory	0
Digital technology and its implications for peacebuilding in South Africa and Zimbabwe	0
Understanding higher education as a conflictual field. Situational dynamics of peace and conflict in Senegalese universities	0
Dissolving conflict. Local peace agreements and armed conflict transitions	0
Reintegration of ex-combatants in a militarized society	0
Reflexive postliberal peace: a cultural paradigm shift in Israel’s peacebuilding	0
Africa’s subregional peace and security governance through platformisation: lessons from the IGAD-led peace process for South Sudan between 2013 and 2018	0
Pax ex machina ? An Aristotelian critique of digital peacebuilding’s theory and practice	0
Peacebuilding through women’s community development Wee women’s work in Northern Ireland Peacebuilding through women’s community development Wee women’s work in Northern Ireland	0
An empirical take on the debates on peacebuilding’s failure: the case study of the Ivorian Dialogue Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2011–2014)	0
Gender and citizenship in transitional justice: everyday experiences of reparation and reintegration in Colombia	0
Rethinking peace and violence from the favelas	0
Active looking: images in peace mediation	0
Geographies of peace in the wake of non-war violence in the city: Agir pour la Paix in a marginalised neighbourhood in France	0
“Cultures and practices of local civilian self-protection in South Sudan”	0
Occupying Space in the Kirkuk Bazaar: an intersectional analysis	0
Architecture, politics and peacebuilding in Medellín	0
Local agreements - an introduction to the special issue	0
Mine clearance, peacebuilding and development: interactions between sustainable development goals and infrastructure in Angola	0
Narratives of change and repair: how the study of storytelling in the social sciences can inspire peacebuilding research	0
Is recognition the answer? Exploring the barriers for successful reintegration of ex-combatants into civil society in Northern Ireland and Colombia	0
Knowledge production on intervention failure. The German study commission on Afghanistan	0
Third space and spontaneous contact in a divided city: evidence from Jerusalem	0
Seeing peace like a city: local visions and diplomatic proposals for future solutions	0
Lives in the wake of mass violence	0
Protracted conflicts against hydroelectric facilities: a content analysis of media frames in Guatemala	0
Stigmatisation as settler colonialism: designating humanitarian and civic society organisations in Palestine as security threats	0
Systems analysis and peacebuilding: a conceptual stock-taking and forward research agenda	0
Living apart together: child participation in the context of peace process theory and practice	0
Making sense of peace in exile? Displaced people’s intersectional perceptions of peace	0
Beyond intragroup betrayal during intergroup relational peacebuilding	0
Review of the book interactive peacemaking: a people-centred approach Review of the book interactive peacemaking: a people-centred approach , by Susan H. Allen, Routledg	0
Correction	0
Pragmatism, courage, and ideals of peace in times of war	0
Controlling victims: forced exhumations in the Peruvian Andes	0
A web of authorities towards hybrid state formation	0
Ukraine–Russia peace plans: historical lessons, operationalising criteria, and comparative assessment	0
Troubling masculinities: a feminist, relational approach to researching sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers	0
Space-time, pace and peace: theorising from post-war Mostar	0
Peacekeeping’s conflict urbanism: a decade of urban change in Mali	0
Local peace governance in post-war Timor-Leste: reconceiving governance ambiguity as a formalised political unsettlement	0
Humanitarian diplomacy as moral history	0
Beyond comprehensive peace agreements: the role of civil society in promoting liberal values in local agreements	0
Local agreements as a process: the example of local talks in Homs in Syria	0
Urban restructuring and the reproduction of spaces of violence in Belfast	0
Interpreter training in conflict and post-conflict scenarios	0
Feel the grass grow: ecologies of slow peace in Colombia	0
Towards a third side on social media	0
The glaring gaps: environmental violence and peace research and practice	0
Peacebuilding round table	0
In the aftermath of Genocide: Guatemala’s failed reconciliation	0
Systemic anxiety and the impasse of peacebuilding	0
Digital peacekeeping, cyborg soldiers and militarised masculinities: a posthuman critique	0
Modern concept of peacebuilding and the idea of peacebuilding in Igbo pre-colonial society in Africa	0
Peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and the ‘balance of bureaucratic power’ in Kofi Annan’s Secretariat: a micro-history of two United Nations departments	0
Peaces of music: understanding the varieties of peace that music-making can foster	0