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The Future of Peacebuilding: Lessons from Afghanistan, a Conversation with Mats Berdal

Prof. Berdal joins United Nations University Rector David M. Malone for a discussion on the challenges of peacebuilding and statebuilding in societies ravaged by chronic instability, focusing on the lessons learned from the intervention in Afghanistan. A striking aspect of the post-Cold War era has been the unprecedented number of ambitious — often large-scale, costly, and extended — attempts by external actors to strengthen and build lasting peace in fragile states. The actual record of interventions undertaken in the name of liberal values, however, has proved decidedly mixed. In particular, outcomes of the intervention in Afghanistan — which fell short of the hoped-for end-state of a self-sustaining, democratic government — have raised profound questions over the future of liberal peacebuilding. Why has the record of liberal peacebuilding proved to be so patchy? To what extent will “intervention fatigue” signal an end to the era of liberal interventionism? Mats Berdal is Professor of Security and Development at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, and Director of the Conflict, Security, and Development Research Group. Between 2000 and 2003, he was Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is a member of Academia Europaea, and is an adjunct professor at the Norwegian Defence University College. From 2015 to 2016, he served on the Norwegian Commission of Inquiry on Afghanistan, established by the government in 2014 to evaluate and draw lessons from Norway’s military, humanitarian, and civilian involvement in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014. Prof. Berdal has published extensively in the area of peace and statebuilding, including Disarmament and Demobilisation After Civil Wars: Arms, Soldiers and the Termination of Armed Conflicts (1996), and Building Peace After War (2009). He is also the co-editor of Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (2000), and United Nations Interventionism,1991–2004 (2007).