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26 Int'l Peacekeeping 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/intlpkpg26 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING Routledge 2019, VOL. 26, NO. 1, 1-21 https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2018.1502040 Taylor &Francis Group a OPEN ACCESS From LHberal PEacebuildrng to Stabilization and Countert rrorsrm John Karlsrud Department of Peace, Conflict and Development, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway Since the end of the Cold War, international interventions have increasingly been deployed to deal with internal conflict. Liberal peacebuilding has been a guiding concept for many of these interventions, in particular those deployed by the UN. This article argues that liberal peacebuilding is waning in importance, both as a guiding concept and in practice. After long engagements in Afghanistan and the enduring effects of the financial crisis, Western states are shifting their strategy from liberal peacebuilding to stabilization and counterterrorism. In Africa, regional ad hoc coalitions set up to fight terrorists and other armed groups are on the rise, and progressively included in UN peacekeeping operations. To examine these shifts more closely, the article focuses on the crisis in Mali since 2012 and the growing Western security presence in neighbouring Niger. The article concludes that the turn from liberal peacebuilding to stabilization and counterterrorism is likely to be counterproductive, as it will lead to more oppressive governments and more disillusioned people joining the ranks of opposition and terrorist groups, as well as undermine the UN in general and UN peace operations in particular. KEY VORDS Counterterrorism; liberal peacebuilding; peacekeeping; stabilization; United Nations We are not nation-building again. We are killing terrorists. Donald Trump addressing troops at Fort Myer, 21 August 2017. Introduc ion Liberal peacebuilding may be on its way to the scrapyard of history. After being a popular concept as well as practice in the international security John Karlsrud jka@nupi.no © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDer- ivatives License (http//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distri- bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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