“Adaptive Peacebuilding: A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century” Published

A book titled “Adaptive Peacebuilding: A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century” edited by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto was published in March 2023.

This book introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding approach in response to the urgent need to ameliorate existing methods of preventing and resolving contemporary violent armed conflicts. The book utilizes five case studies (Colombia, Mozambique, Palestine, Syria, and Timor-Leste) to comparatively examine whether context-specific and adaptive approaches are more effective than determined-designed approaches to ensuring sustained peace in contemporary conflict-affected societies. The book also reflects on the ways in which China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding, focusing on how they design, implement, and evaluate programs to sustain peace.

This volume represents the final outcome of the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development project titled “Contextualizing International Cooperation for Sustaining Peace: Adaptive Peacebuilding Pathways.”


The PDF of the book can be downloaded for free from the link below.