A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management
Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising powers like India and China are reshaping global peace governance.
Author: Adhikari
Advancing “Government Recognition in Uncontested States” as a Research Agenda:...
This article builds on scholarship on norms and practices of recognition with an inductive case study of post-coup Myanmar.
Civic Network Research: A New Methodology for Conducting Ethical and Policy-relevant...
This brief identifies key challenges of undertaking research in fragile and conflict-affected contexts and how these can be addressed through Civic Network Research design and strategies.
“Discreet dominance”: peacekeeping deployments and international security force...
The Nepal Army has never attempted a coup or overtly obstructed transfer of power between different governments, yet remains the most powerful institutions in Nepal.
Peace Process Lite: When Global Fragmentation Meets Conflict Fragmentation
The fragmentation of peacemaking and conflict are leading to the emergence of pragmatic and reductionist forms of conflict resolution, or ‘peace process lite’.
Beyond Comprehensive Peace Agreements: The Role of Civil Society in Promoting Liberal...
This article uses the PA-X Local database to evaluate how and in what ways liberal norms feature in local peace agreements.
Getting into Talks: Designing a Viable Early-Stage Peace Process
This report sets out some key issues that need to be considered when designing a viable peace process in the early stages.
Disaggregated Mediation: The Localisation of Peace Processes Amid Global and Domestic...
This article examines disaggregated mediation in contemporary conflict resolution, proposing a new conceptual framework to analyse its drivers, dynamics, and implications through analysis of post-coup Myanmar.
Statebuilding Beyond Western Interventions: Rising Powers, Emerging Modes of...
The article argues that India and China have influenced political institution-building in Nepal and Myanmar, challenging Western-dominated peacebuilding narratives.
Pathways ahead for Myanmar: Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities
This policy brief summarises key findings on emerging themes on the political space in Myanmar, drawn from praxis-based research in the form of a Study Group on Myanmar.
Conflict Management and Peacebuilding in Asia
This article underlines how the geopolitical context of Asia has defined the conflict-management approaches of different states.
Non-Western engagement in peace processes and the rise of ‘hedging’ by elites in...
Focusing on Myanmar and Nepal, Monalisa Adhikari analyses the changing landscape of peacebuilding support to conflict-affected states and the increasing bargaining leverage of elites.