Violent peacemakers
"Violent Peacemakers" aims to advance our understanding of connections and interlinkages between military interventions and externally supported security sector reform in statebuilding interventions.
"Violent Peacemakers" is led by Dr. Maria-Louise Clausen, and is a three-year research project (2022-2025) funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Since 9/11 there has been a growing militarization of interventions in fragile and conflict-affected states. This is reflected in two concurrent trends. First, an increased focus on containing the threat from failing states through remote warfare or other forms of military intervention and second, externally supported security sector reform (SSR) to (re)build security institution as part of a broader stabilization or statebuilding intervention.
These interventions of different kinds (military versus capacity building) are often analyzed as if they take place independent of each other despite involving the same actors and being temporally linked.
This project contributes to existing research by exploring theoretical and empirical implications of considering connections between external military intervention and SSR interventions aimed at (re)building the security sector. Empirically, the project focuses on Iraq and Yemen.
Maria-Louise Clausen, PhD, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Peter Albrecht, PhD, Senior Researcher, DIIS
William Reno, PhD, Professor & Chair of Department, Northwestern University
Forskning og aktiviteter
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Bogkapitel2024Maria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Working Paper2022Maria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Photo/illustration by Andy Dean / adobe.stock.comDIIS Policy Brief2024Maria-Louise Clausen