Dr Sarah von Billerbeck has published a new article in the highly-ranked European Journal of International Relations with Oisín Tansey (KCL), entitled ‘Enabling Autocracy? Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Authoritarianism in the Democratic Republic of Congo.’ The article argues that UN peace operations may unintentionally enable authoritarian forms of governance in the post-conflict states where it deploys, despite their stated aim of fostering democracy. Together with Dr Birte Gippert (Liverpool), Dr von Billerbeck and Dr Tansey have been awarded an ESRC grant to conduct a broader three-year study on the topic.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1354066118819724