Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia - Dilemmas, Challenges and Implementations

This book analyzes peacebuilding operations in Southeast Asia, focusing on socio-economic improvement for conflict resolutions. Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia always faces dilemmas between development imperatives and the non-interference principle because of the authoritarian regimes. This book has an attempt to disclose difficulties and challenges of peacebuilding in the region based on the concept of human security.
The idea of peacebuilding, which is criticized as insensitive towards the local, emerged as the basis of a universal vision of peace and development. Tensions between international peacebuilding actors and local stakeholders go far deeper than mere problems of coordination in operation. Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia faces most serious situations because conflicts in the region was originally influenced by a negative legacy of the colonial age and the colonial suzerainty forcibly separated their identity and ethnic network. Besides, their authoritarian resist being interfered by outside peacebuilding actors.

List of contents

Preface.- Table of Contents.- About the Editors and Authors.- What is the purpose of Peacebuilding in the face of diversity? Strategy from Fragile Nations through the g7+.- Building a Civil Society Network to Promote Peace in Southeast Asia: The Case of ANFREL.- Dual Dilemmas for the Implementation of Hybrid Peacebuilding: A Case Study of People Living Near the East-West Border on Timor Island.- Natural Disaster Response, Preparedness, and Peace Building in Southeast Asia: Cooperation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Region.- Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Southeast Asia: 20 Years of Changes and Challenges.- ASEAN s involvement in the UN peacekeeping operations.- Consolidation of Peace in Asia without a Peacebuilding slogan:Two Perspectives on Japan s Support for Peacebuilding.- The Lao Way : A Pathway to Peace and Sustainable Development in Laos.-  Public Diplomacy in Indonesia, Malaysia and East Timor.- Root Cause Analysis as a Tool for South East Asian Positive Peacebuilding: A Cause Study from Aceh Conflict in Indonesia.- Influence of Regime of Care and Territoriality on Border Governance in Kachin, Myanmar.- Unique Potential of Youth Associated with Non-State Armed Groups (YANSAG): Case in Indonesia and the Philippines.- The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste.- Motivational Factors and Interest on the Part of Timorese and Japanese Students in the International Technical Education Exchange Project.

About the author

Mitsuru Yamada is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University. Yamada is a president of Japan Society for Humanitarian Action Studies, Co-director of Japanese Studies program at Vietnam-Japan University, VNU Hanoi, and a vice president of the Association of Japan-Timor-Leste. Yamada earned a Ph.D. in political sciences from Kobe University and an M.A. in international relations from Ohio University (USA). Her recent publications include The Trilogy for Peacebuilding: Beyond Obstacles of Democratization, Development and Peace (Japanese: Akashi-shoten, 2021; co-authored, Springer,2023); Introduction for International Cooperation: How to create the world peace (Japanese: Tamagawa University Press, 2024) , Governance and Peace in Asia II (Japanese: co-authored, Yushindo,2025).

  

Kazumi Abe, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Nishogakusha University. Abe holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Waseda University. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a research fellow in Institute of International Studies, Department of International Relation, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gajah Mada University in Indonesia, an electoral advisor in The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), and an official for Bureau of Defense Policy, Japan Ministry of Defense. Her major publications include The Chaotic Independent Movement in West Papua: Whereabouts of the struggle for “the land of peace” (Japanese: Akashi Shoten, February 2022).

Summary

This book analyzes peacebuilding operations in Southeast Asia, focusing on socio-economic improvement for conflict resolutions. Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia always faces dilemmas between development imperatives and the non-interference principle because of the authoritarian regimes. This book has an attempt to disclose difficulties and challenges of peacebuilding in the region based on the concept of human security.
The idea of peacebuilding, which is criticized as insensitive towards the local, emerged as the basis of a universal vision of peace and development. Tensions between international peacebuilding actors and local stakeholders go far deeper than mere problems of coordination in operation. Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia faces most serious situations because conflicts in the region was originally influenced by a negative legacy of the colonial age and the colonial suzerainty forcibly separated their identity and ethnic network. Besides, their authoritarian resist being interfered by outside peacebuilding actors.

Product details

• Assisted by: Abe (Editor), Kazumi Abe (Editor), Mitsuru Yamada (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.10.2025
• EAN: 9789819503247
• ISBN: 978-981-9503-24-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Illustrations: XVIII, 302 p. 18 illus., 14 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; Asien, Civil Society, Politik und Staat, Human Rights, Development, peacebuilding, Southeast Asia, Human Security, Asian Politics, Politics and Human Rights, Authoritarian regime, Non-interference principle