Severine Autesserre
French political scientist and international-relations scholar, professor at Columbia University (Barnard/Columbia), known for research on conflict, peacebuilding, and interventions in the Democratic Republic of Congo; author of The Trouble with the Congo and Peaceland.
Books
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1. The Frontlines Of Peace
An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
This book argues that durable peace is made not by high-level treaties or foreign experts but by everyday frontline peacebuilders—local mediators, community leaders, aid workers and low-level officials—whose daily practices, relationships and problem-solving shape outcomes on the ground. Drawing on case studies from conflict-affected countries, it shows how international funding, organizational incentives and top-down strategies often undermine local initiatives, and it prescribes practical reforms: shift decision-making and resources to local actors, redesign international bureaucracy and evaluation to reward long-term, context-sensitive work, and cultivate humility, coordination and sustained support. The result is a blueprint for changing how the global peacebuilding industry operates so that it amplifies rather than weakens the people already working for peace.
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