Author: Christoph Zürcher | Journal of Democracy

Christoph Zürcher is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus (2007).

January 2011, Volume 22, Issue 1

Building Democracy While Building Peace

Christoph Zürcher

Why are peacebuilding operations rarely able to establish postconflict democracies, and are there other strategies that would yield more successes?