Fostering Constructive Relations: Approaches to Trust-Building in Peacebuilding Interventions

Abstract: Trust-building between citizens and state security actors is an integral part of post-conflict and peacebuilding interventions. Personal encounters are a frequently applied tool in peacebuilding work that aims to foster trust. Yet survey findings from across the globe suggest that trust in state institutions is eroding. What is more, trust-building initiatives between citizens and state security actors like the police evidently fail at times to contribute to enhancing relations. Focusing on dialogue settings under conditions of power asymmetry between the stakeholders, we conducted an extensive literature review, investigating where underlying rationales of trust-building in these types of interventions are critically challenged. For this purpose, we analysed strands of the peacebuilding and conflict transformation literature and the governance and institutionalism literature, and also drew on insights from criminology as well as organisational and management literature to broaden

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 66 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Erstveröffentlichung ; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: IFSH Research Report ; Bd. 008

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2022
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Hamburg
• (who): Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Budde, Viktoria ; Eickhoff, Karoline
• Contributor: Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)

Further information

• DOI: 10.25592/ifsh-research-report-008
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023052315135219614514
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:53 PM CET