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Temporality and contextualisation in Peace and Conflict Studies: The forgotten value of war memoirs and personal diaries (2021)
Journal Article
Mac Ginty, R. (2022). Temporality and contextualisation in Peace and Conflict Studies: The forgotten value of war memoirs and personal diaries. Cooperation and Conflict, 57(2), 191-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367211027605

This article contributes to debates on appropriate levels of analysis, temporality, and the utility of fieldwork in relation to Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS), and International Relations more generally. It observes a recentism or privileging of th... Read More about Temporality and contextualisation in Peace and Conflict Studies: The forgotten value of war memoirs and personal diaries.

Power or peace? Restoration or emancipation through peace processes (2021)
Journal Article
Richmond, O. P., Mac Ginty, R., Pogodda, S., & Visoka, G. (2021). Power or peace? Restoration or emancipation through peace processes. Peacebuilding, 9(3), 243-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1911916

Recent critical academic work in Peace and Conflict Studies has concentrated on the agential aspects of peace but has somewhat neglected structural issues and the different types of power that may be an obstacle to peace. Yet, for peace to take root,... Read More about Power or peace? Restoration or emancipation through peace processes.

Conflict disruption: Reassessing the peaceandconflict system (2021)
Journal Article
Mac Ginty, R. (2022). Conflict disruption: Reassessing the peaceandconflict system. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16(1), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1889167

The notion of conflict disruption is proposed as an addition to the established conflict response framework of conflict management, resolution and transformation. Drawing on Schumpeter’s idea of creative disruption, the article considers how disrupti... Read More about Conflict disruption: Reassessing the peaceandconflict system.

The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept (2021)
Journal Article
Pogodda, S., Mac Ginty, R., & Richmond, O. (2021). The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept. Conflict, Security and Development, 21(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1854442

While often caused by conflict, crises are treated by the EU as a phenomenon of their own. Contemporary EU crisis management represents a watering down of normative EU approaches to peacebuilding, reduced to a technical exercise with the limited ambi... Read More about The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept.