Peace Report 2017: A Selection of Texts

Researchers from various disciplines examine ongoing international conflicts from the perspective of peace strategy. Their analyses form the basis of the editors' statement, which takes stock of pressing issues and formulates policy recommendations. How can violence be contained when the cooperative world order is collapsing? International politics is marked by severe turbulence. The basis for establishing a cooperative world order is eroding, global inequality is increasing, the hopes placed in international law are being frustrated. Syria represents the failure of the community of nations to prevent war crimes and mass atrocities. After experiences in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the assumption in the West that it would be possible to curb or contain