This multi-year, collaborative research project seeks to improve both the theory and practice of how peace is achieved in post-conflict countries by disentangling the related goals of peacebuilding and statebuilding. It does so by focusing on the ability of three post-conflict states to provide public services and resolve societal grievances at the local level. It also seeks to understand how externally led peacebuilding interventions in Cambodia, Laos, and Uganda compare with more autonomous and domestically motivated peace processes in achieving sustainable peace and improvements in state capacity.
This project is supported by the Minerva Initiative and undertaken by Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo of the Naval Postgraduate School and by Naomi Levy of Santa Clara University.