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Conflict and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: caught in the peace trap? (2011)
Book
Goodhand, J., Spencer, J., & Korf, B. (Eds.). (2011). Conflict and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: caught in the peace trap?. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203838242

The period between 2001 and 2006 saw the rise and fall of an internationally supported effort to bring a protracted violent conflict in Sri Lanka to a peaceful resolution. A ceasefire agreement, signed in February 2002, was followed by six rounds of... Read More about Conflict and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: caught in the peace trap?.

Stabilizing a Victor’s Peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka (2010)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J. (2010). Stabilizing a Victor’s Peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka. Disasters, 34(3), 342-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01212.x

This paper focuses on the ‘Sri Lankan model’ of counter-insurgency and stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian and development actors. The Sri Lanka case shows that discourses, policies and practices associated with ‘stabilisation’ are no... Read More about Stabilizing a Victor’s Peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka.

The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process (2009)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (2009). The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 3(3), 303-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502970903086693

This essay explores international engagement in the Sri Lankan peace process between 2002 and 2008. The internationalization of peacebuilding in Sri Lanka is analysed as part of a broader international shift towards a model of ‘liberal peacebuilding’... Read More about The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process.

War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central (2008)
Book Chapter
Goodhand, J. (2008). War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central. In M. Pugh, N. Cooper, & M. Turner (Eds.), Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (225-244). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228740_14

Wherever there is violent conflict, boundaries and borders are taken seriously. As the quote above implies, boundaries play an ambiguous role, acting simultaneously as source of security and antagonism, inclusion and exclusion. Which boundaries becom... Read More about War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central.

Politics, Poppy and Statebuilding (2008)
Book Chapter
Goodhand, J. (2008). Politics, Poppy and Statebuilding. In G. Hayes, & M. Sedra (Eds.), Afghanistan. Transition Under Threat. Laurier University Press