Peace Building and Responsive Governance in Asia and the Pacific

What works in peacebuilding? What kinds of interventions backfire? This research will analyse peacebuilding strategies from diverse contexts in search of keys to effectiveness. Restorative and responsive regulatory theory, useful in many other domains, will be tested on unique data on governance of peacebuilding. Responsive theory will doubtless be revised or rejected as a general social science theory; the bigger ambition is to play to CI strength as inductive builders of new theory from unusually wide data sets. Each of 48 country cases will also stand alone as contextually rich accounts of successes and failures of peacebuilding in that nation.