Chair: Head of Research and Development, Kirsi Henriksson (kirsi.henriksson[at]cmcfinland.fi)
Coordinator: Jari Mustonen (jari.mustonen[at]cmcfinland.fi)
In the post-Cold War era, the focus of international crisis management is increasingly shifting from peacekeeping, which was about maintaining the status quo, to peacebuilding, which has to do with managing change. The nexus between development and peace has become a central focus of peacebuilding thinking and practice over the last decade. Integrated Crisis Management and Comprehensive Approach to crisis management are tools to respond to the paradigm shift in the international peacebuilding and crisis management operations. The challenging question is, however, what is the linkage between these approaches and the field practices at the crisis settings? How well, if at all, does the comprehensive approach include also the development aspects not to mention the interests of local communities?
This working group invites presentations which analyse different approaches to the peacebulding and crisis management. Theoretical analyses as well as empirical cases based on the field practices are both welcome.
Melissa Plath (University of Jyväskylä): “Rwanda’s Reconciliation: Perspectives from Parliament”
Zorniza Grekova (University of Helsinki): “The ASEAN Approach to Security (”The ASEAN Way”) and its implications for the security in post-Cold war East Asia”