| Biography: |
Susanna Campbell is a Visiting Scholar at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University until September 2012. Her current research project uses organizational ethnography to build a typology of the determinants of peacebuilding and statebuilding success and failure, examining in detail the interactions between international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and aid agencies and the war-to-peace trajectories that they aim to influence.
Susanna has been investigating the capacity of international actors to prevent violent conflict and build peaceful states since 1996. She has carried out studies for the Center for Preventive Action of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER), UNICEF, International Crisis Group, International Alert, the World Bank Post-Conflict Fund, The World Bank Conflict-Affected States Group, the National Defense University, Catholic Relief Services, the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the UN Peacebuilding Support Office.
She has published widely on peacebuilding, statebuilding, and conflict prevention, including with the Council on Foreign Relations Press, Journal of International Peacekeeping, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Routledge (forthcoming), and through numerous reports, policy articles, and conference papers. Most recently, she co-edited with David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding (Zed, 2011).
Susanna has received several fellowships for her research, including the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Dissertation Fellowship (2008-2009), the Tufts Provost Fellowship, and the Prospective Researcher Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2012). She is currently wrapping up her dissertation – Organizational Barriers to Peace: Explaining Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Success and Failure – with The Fletcher School, Tufts University.
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NEW PUBLICATION: A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding.
Edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler, and Meera Sabaratnam (London: Zed Books, December 2011).
Summary: The scholarly debate about international peacebuilding and statebuilding has increasingly become split among those who buy into its aims of creating liberal democratic states grounded in free markets and rule of law, and those who critique and oppose them. These literatures largely fail to ‘talk’ to one another, leaving in their wake insufficient empirical investigation of international peacebuilding efforts and a dearth of theories that could substitute for ‘liberal peace’.This timely and much-needed volume takes the debate beyond this unhelpful binary critique of the liberal peace. In doing so, it examines the validity of this critique in contemporary peacebuilding and statebuilding practice through a multitude of case studies - from Afghanistan to Somalia, Sri Lanka to Kosovo. Going further, it investigates and critiques the underlying theoretical assumptions of liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding, as well as providing new theoretical propositions for understanding current interventions. Written by some of the most prominent scholars in the liberal peace and peacebuilding effectiveness debate, alongside several new scholars making cutting edge contributions, this is an essential contribution to a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of study.
The book can be ordered online, on the publisher's website.
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| Selected Publications |
- Campbell, Susanna (2012). “Statebuilding.” In Roger Mac Ginty ed. Handbook of Peacebuilding. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2012.
- Campbell, Susanna, David Chandler, and Meera Sabaratnam, eds. (2011). A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding. London: Zed Books.
- Campbell, Susanna (2011). “Routine Learning? How Peacebuilding Organizations Prevent Liberal Peace.” In Susanna Campbell, David Chandler, and Meera Sabaratnam, eds. A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding. London: Zed Books.
- Campbell, Susanna, David Chandler, and Meera Sabaratnam (2011). “Introduction: The Politics of Liberal Peace.” In Susanna Campbell, David Chandler, and Meera Sabaratnam, eds., A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding. London: Zed Books.
- Campbell, Susanna (2010). Peacebuilding Fund Projects in Burundi: Independent External Evaluation. New York: United Nations.
- Campbell, Susanna P. (2008). “When Process Matters: The Potential Implications of Organizational Learning for Peacebuilding Success.” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 4, no. 2:20-32.
- Campbell, Susanna P. (2008). “(Dis)integration, Incoherence and Complexity in UN Post-conflict Interventions.” International Peacekeeping 15, no. 4:556-569.
- Campbell, Susanna P. and Anja Kaspersen (2008). “Confronting Integration Barriers.” International Peacekeeping 15, no. 4:470-485.
- “Institutional Capacity Building for Conflict Sensitivity” (2004). In Conflict Sensitive Approaches to Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding: A Resource Pack. London: International Alert, Saferworld and FEWER.
- A Framework for Responsible Aid to Burundi (2003). International Crisis Group Africa Report No. 57. Brussels/Bujumbura: International Crisis Group.
- Rubin, Barnett with Susanna P. Campbell (1998). “Introduction: Experiences in Prevention.” In Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action. New York: Twentieth Century Fund/ Council on Foreign Relations, pp. 1-21.
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