Foreword
Preface: War, Hope, and Peace
PART I: PEACE POSSIBLE
Chapter 1: Island of Peace
Chapter 2: Role Models
PART II: PEACE, INC.
Chapter 3: Insiders and Outsiders
Chapter 4: Designed Intervention
PART III: THE NEW PEACE MANIFESTO
Chapter 5: Peace by Piece
Chapter 6: Recasting Roles
Chapter 7: The Home Front
Appendix: Sources
Acknowledgments
Book Club Discussion Guide
Teaching Guide
Index
Severine Autesserre is an award-winning author, peacebuilder, and
researcher, as well as Professor and Chair of Political Science at
Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of The
Trouble with the Congo and Peaceland, in addition to articles for
publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post,
Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.
Autesserre has been involved intimately in the world of
international aid for more than twenty years. She has conducted
research in twelve different conflict zones, from Colombia to
Somalia to Israel and the Palestinian territories. She has worked
for Doctors Without Borders in places like Afghanistan and Congo,
and at the United Nations headquarters in the United States. Her
research has helped shape the intervention strategies of several
United Nations departments, foreign affairs ministries,
and non-governmental organizations, as well as numerous
philanthropists and activists. She has also been a featured speaker
at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, the U.S. House of
Representatives, and the United Nations Security Council.
You can find a teaching guide and a book club discussion guide at
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Having worked as an international aid worker in 12 different
conflict zones, Autesserre, through her memoir and reporting, lays
down a compelling account advocating for the need for grassroots
initiatives for peacebuilding. The book comes as another addition
to the authorâs extensive work addressing the failure of
international interventions in building sustainable peace.
*India Quarterly *
[Autesserre] offers a crucial contribution to the growing body of
literature which seeks to challenge the common assumptions,
narratives, methodologies and strategies that have dominated the
aid and peacemaking industry thus far. ... [The book] provides a
great introductory insight into the world of peacebuilding, both
theoretically, in terms of both mainstream and critical strategies
and discourses, and practically, in terms of working with (or
rather to ameliorate) international peacebuilding
organizations.
*The International Spectator*
Autesserre's contrast of Peace, Inc., with local, creative
initiatives that can build peace (in the United States as well as
around the globe) offers a clear picture of two very different
approaches, and it provides a compelling argument for why ordinary
people can have outsized effects on violence.
*African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review*
Autesserre's book provides some fascinating insights into how
localised peace approaches can work, and some of the paths that
have not worked. The book represents an excellent introduction for
students, as well as an important step forward in providing greater
clarity around localized peace for both academics and
peacebuilders.
*The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding*
Autesserre is the rare breed of academic who writes with passion,
clarity, and a storyteller's eye for detail... she brings to the
table nuance, rigor, passion, and firsthand knowledge, having
previously cut her teeth as a peacebuilder herself... her
contribution to this discussion, given the enormity of the stakes,
is a much needed one. The UN is in dire need of critics like
Autesserre—thoughtful observers to assess its shortcomings and hold
it accountable. This is a bone worth picking.
*Lionel Beehner, Political Science Quarterly *
Séverine Autesserre has persistently made noteworthy and invaluable
contributions to the literature on peacebuilding and conflict
management, and The Frontlines of Peace is no exception to this
trend... Séverine Autesserre has provided her readers with a
roadmap for changing the world of peacebuilding; such change,
however, will take time, as well as willingness and collaboration
from both insiders and outsiders engaging in conflict management
withinconflict zones.
*Sven Botha, South African Journal of International Affairs*
...the book is worth mining for serious scholars of
peacekeeping.
*Paul F. Diehl, International Peacekeeping*
For anyone who really cares about improving the work of this flawed
but still all too necessary field, Autesserreâs book makes for
essential and uncomfortable reading.
*Gordon Peake, Devpolicy Blog*
Severine Autesserre's The Frontlines of Peace is a story above
anything else. It is a story that encompasses other mini-stories
from different areas in the world that have suffered different
kinds of conflict and violence... While providing well-thought but
yet simply structured answers... Autesserre's book also contains
her witty and sharp sense of humor... What makes this page-turner
even more worth reading is the fact that Severine Autesserre not
only criticizes what doesn't work, but she also gives readers and
practitioners great examples of what works.
*Shadi Rouhshahbaz, Peacemaker 360*
A fascinating book.
*Colette Braeckman, Le Soir*
Severine Autesserre tells the story of ordinary women and men who
manage to reduce violence in their communities every day, whether
in the Congo, Colombia, or the United States. It's a captivating
and inspiring story that invites readers to act. I hope it will
encourage you to get more involved in the fight against violence
and impunity, and to build peace at home and for our common
humanity.
*Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate*
Peace is possible but difficult. No one is omniscient about what
turns swords into ploughshares, and it's essential that we always
question our assumptions, learn from experience, and listen to
experts who know both the big ideas and the facts on the ground.
The Frontlines of Peace offers new insights into one of humanity's
most noble endeavors.
*Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and
Enlightenment Now*
Severine Autesserre combines a scholar's rigor and an activist's
passion. With authority gained from hard experience, she shows how
true peace must be built from the ground up and the inside out. A
world in flames should heed her message.
*Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs*
Peacebuilding rests on the courage and wisdom of those people
closest to conflict, and we must invest in them in ways that
dignify their work and commitment. Severine Autesserre's book makes
clear how to do this. The Frontlines of Peace is a must-read.
*John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International
Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame*
In this remarkable book, Severine Autesserre draws on decades of
experience in conflict zones and offices of international
organizations to show how meaningful peace depends on local
peacebuilding initiatives. Building on her inspiring and sometimes
heart-breaking encounters with local activists about their work to
address violence, redress suffering, and manage emergent conflict,
it offers compelling recommendations for how to effectively support
the necessary work of activists on the ground.
*Elisabeth Jean Wood, Crosby Professor of the Human Environment,
Yale University*
Not just another book about international politics. It will change
the way you see the world around you.
*Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate *
A seamless blend of autobiography, research reports from zones of
peace, and Auteserre's scholarly discussion of how peacebuilding
actually works in places that have suffered from violent conflict,
The Frontlines of Peace will reward specialists, students, and
general readers.
*Ronald Edsforth, Peace & Change*
[A] fascinating and insightful book.
*Dr Anurug Chakma, Australian Outlook*
I recommend Severine Autesserre's The Frontlines of Peace to anyone
who wants to understand in depth the dynamics of post-conflict
peace and state building.
*Evren Balta, T24*
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