Successes and Failures of Peace Processes

Prof. Karina Korostelina (George Mason University) presents her research on strategies that create a foundation for successful peace processes. The discussant will be Prof. Roberto Belloni.

Talk Abstract

The talk discusses existing comprehensive frameworks for the assessment of successes and failures of peace settlements and agreements, and highlights the gap in understanding the factors and processes that address and transform relations between different groups. It represents the BRIDGE model of strategies that create a foundation for successful peace processes. This model reflects both the strategic peacebuilding approach and the intersubjective approach to just peace. The talk highlight how insights drawn from twelve cases can be applicable to other prolonged, ethnonational, and asymmetric conflicts, with a focus on averting the resurgence of violence following a peace agreement.

Speaker's Short Bio

Karina V. Korostelina is a Professor and a Director of the Peace Lab on Reconciling Conflicts and Intergroup Divisions at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, GMU. She is establishing member and a President of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies. Her scholarship and practice are supported by 53 grants and presented in 18 books and over hundred articles and chapters. Dr. Korostelina has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Writing Fellow, and a fellow at Wilson International Center for Scholars. She also has been awarded 11 residential fellowships in leading universities worldwide. Dr. Korostelina is deeply involved in the practice of conflict resolution and peacebuilding, working with Governments and local organizations in over 20 countries. She has a long record of establishing collaborations with international institutions and has helped establish new programs in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in eight countries.