The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11

Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign militaryinterventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points forpostwar reconstruction? What would it take to achieve durable peace?This book presents six provocative case studies authored by respectedpeacebuilding practitioners in their own societies. The studies addresstwo cases of relative success (Guatemala and Mozambique), three casesof renewed but deeply fraught efforts (Afghanistan, Haiti, and thePalestinian Territories), and the case of Sri Lanka, wherepeacebuilding was aborted but where the outlines of a new peace processcan be discerned.