Sabine Kurtenbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Kurtenbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurtenbach |
| SIGNATURE | KURTENBACH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8246-3233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Hope to Uncertainty to Lessons Learned
To Fr. Javier Giraldo (1944-2026), a tireless human rights defender and champion of peace and social justice in Colombia. His lessons inspired many generations of social activists and human rights defenders. His memory will surely inspire many more to keep working, against all odds, for a Colombia with rights, peace, freedom, social justice, inclusion and equity. Ten years after the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP…
Colombia’s War Economy – An Obstacle to Peace?
War economies are frequently seen as a main hindrance for peacebuilding. Over the last ten years, the persistence of the drug economy has been an important element of the Colombian narrative to explain postwar violence. However, high levels of variation at the sub-national level suggest there is no deterministic relation between war economies and postwar violence. While they all rank high in terms of illicit crop density, violence levels (in term…
Non-state armed actors, war economies and postwar violence – Examining the connections
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006070 Universidad de los Andes
Variations of Peace in Colombia
Peace and conflict are not the same across territories and scales.Conceptualizing peace as a process based on three core functions of society and related normsprovision of security, participation and conflict transformationallows us to identify variations in peacebuilding needs and perceptions.Methodologically, the article first develops a conceptual framework and then tests it with a case study of Colombiaa subnationally diverse country with a l…
Building Pathways to Peace
SSR is a key element of the transitions out of war, aiming at the establishment of accountable and legitimate institutions able to prevent and sanction the use of violence. While recognizing the need to include local actors, donor policies still focus mostly on the state as a provider of security. Second generation SSR has emphasized the need to include local communities and recognize the existence of non-state actors in the provision of security…
Promoting Peace and Impunity? Amnesty Laws after War in El Salvador and beyond
Amnesty laws are a widespread practice in the transition from war to peace. They often aim at the transformation of violent conflict by making promises about exemptions from liability for war crimes. Critics argue that amnesties are in violation of international law and reproduce impunity in post-war societies, whereas supporters of amnesty laws focus on their peace-promoting features. Previous research has extensively looked into the second aspe…
Covid-19 als Chance für den Frieden
Ende März 2020 rief UN-Generalsekretär Guterres angesichts der Bedrohung durch die Covid-19-Pandemie dazu auf, weltweit die Waffen ruhen zu lassen. Obwohl diese Initiative von 171 Regierungen begrüßt wurde, ist es nicht einmal kurzfristig zu einer umfassenden Gewaltreduktion in zentralen Konfliktgebieten gekommen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie in zwei regional wie global bedeutsamen Konfliktländern, Kolum…
The limits of peace in Latin America
Latin American governments frequently emphasise the democratic and peaceful order in the region. These claims are based on two developments: First, except for Cuba, the region has experienced processes of democratisation since the early 1980s. Second, since the 1990s, a series of long-lasting civil wars have ended with negotiated settlements and without a relapse into war. Based on such a superficial analysis, Latin America can be perceived as a …
Judicial Reform – A Neglected Dimension of SSR in El Salvador
Security Sector Reform is an integral part of peace-building but the focus of international actors tends to be on formal state security providers. This article argues that reforms in the judicial system are key for the non-violent transformation of societal conflicts. Based on historical institutionalism a theoretical argument links justice and peace. Reforms of the judiciary need to be an integral part of SSR because otherwise reforms in the mil…
Understanding the relation between war economies and post-war crime
Even when armed conflicts formally end, the transition to peace is not clear-cut. Mounting evidence suggests that it is rather ‘unlikely to see a clean break from violence to consent, from theft to production, from repression to democracy, or from impunity to accountability’. The transition out of war is a complex endeavour, interrelated in many cases with other transformations such as changes in the political regime (democratisation) and in the …
Voting is not enough
The role of children and young people in war has received much attention, though their political activism after war's end is rarely discussed. Political liberalisation generally widens participatory opportunities for youths 18 years and older. But citizenship is defined by more than the right to vote every few years; citizens must also be granted voice and agency. This paper analyses the relation between youth political citizenship and peacebuild…
Sicherheitspolitik in Lateinamerika
The ‘Happy Outcomes’ May Not Come at All – Postwar Violence in Central America
The non-recurrence of war is mostly considered as the main indicator for successful peace processes. Nevertheless, even in these postwar contexts, other forms of violence – i.e. state repression or homicide – have the potential to endanger the larger process of peace-building. Hence, the analysis of variations in postwar violence is important for the broader peace processes. Three interdependent factors explain variations in postwar violence: the…
Introduction
(2013). Introduction: Institutions for Sustainable Peace? Determinants and Effects of Institutional Choices in Divided Societies. Civil Wars: Vol. 15, Institutions for Sustainable Peace? Determinants and Effects of Institutional Choices in Divided Societies, pp. 1-6
Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
Why is Liberal Peace-building so Difficult? Some Lessons from Central America
According to the liberal peace-building paradigm the termination of war is a window of opportunity for fundamental change. Central America has been one of the first laboratories of international policies promoting the threefold transformation process of pacification, democratization and economic liberalization. Although none of the postwar countries (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala) slipped back into war, serious deficits abound that can neithe…
Die Andenregion - Neuer Krisenbogen in Lateinamerika
Sicherheitspolitik in Lateinamerika
Sicherheitspolitik in Lateinamerika
Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
The ‘Happy Outcomes’ May Not Come at All – Postwar Violence in Central America
The non-recurrence of war is mostly considered as the main indicator for successful peace processes. Nevertheless, even in these postwar contexts, other forms of violence – i.e. state repression or homicide – have the potential to endanger the larger process of peace-building. Hence, the analysis of variations in postwar violence is important for the broader peace processes. Three interdependent factors explain variations in postwar violence: the…
Understanding the relation between war economies and post-war crime
Even when armed conflicts formally end, the transition to peace is not clear-cut. Mounting evidence suggests that it is rather ‘unlikely to see a clean break from violence to consent, from theft to production, from repression to democracy, or from impunity to accountability’. The transition out of war is a complex endeavour, interrelated in many cases with other transformations such as changes in the political regime (democratisation) and in the …
Why is Liberal Peace-building so Difficult? Some Lessons from Central America
According to the liberal peace-building paradigm the termination of war is a window of opportunity for fundamental change. Central America has been one of the first laboratories of international policies promoting the threefold transformation process of pacification, democratization and economic liberalization. Although none of the postwar countries (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala) slipped back into war, serious deficits abound that can neithe…
Voting is not enough
The role of children and young people in war has received much attention, though their political activism after war's end is rarely discussed. Political liberalisation generally widens participatory opportunities for youths 18 years and older. But citizenship is defined by more than the right to vote every few years; citizens must also be granted voice and agency. This paper analyses the relation between youth political citizenship and peacebuild…
Judicial Reform – A Neglected Dimension of SSR in El Salvador
Security Sector Reform is an integral part of peace-building but the focus of international actors tends to be on formal state security providers. This article argues that reforms in the judicial system are key for the non-violent transformation of societal conflicts. Based on historical institutionalism a theoretical argument links justice and peace. Reforms of the judiciary need to be an integral part of SSR because otherwise reforms in the mil…
Introduction
(2013). Introduction: Institutions for Sustainable Peace? Determinants and Effects of Institutional Choices in Divided Societies. Civil Wars: Vol. 15, Institutions for Sustainable Peace? Determinants and Effects of Institutional Choices in Divided Societies, pp. 1-6
Non-state armed actors, war economies and postwar violence – Examining the connections
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006070 Universidad de los Andes
Variations of Peace in Colombia
Peace and conflict are not the same across territories and scales.Conceptualizing peace as a process based on three core functions of society and related normsprovision of security, participation and conflict transformationallows us to identify variations in peacebuilding needs and perceptions.Methodologically, the article first develops a conceptual framework and then tests it with a case study of Colombiaa subnationally diverse country with a l…
Promoting Peace and Impunity? Amnesty Laws after War in El Salvador and beyond
Amnesty laws are a widespread practice in the transition from war to peace. They often aim at the transformation of violent conflict by making promises about exemptions from liability for war crimes. Critics argue that amnesties are in violation of international law and reproduce impunity in post-war societies, whereas supporters of amnesty laws focus on their peace-promoting features. Previous research has extensively looked into the second aspe…
The limits of peace in Latin America
Latin American governments frequently emphasise the democratic and peaceful order in the region. These claims are based on two developments: First, except for Cuba, the region has experienced processes of democratisation since the early 1980s. Second, since the 1990s, a series of long-lasting civil wars have ended with negotiated settlements and without a relapse into war. Based on such a superficial analysis, Latin America can be perceived as a …
Sicherheitspolitik in Lateinamerika
Sicherheitspolitik in Lateinamerika
Die Andenregion - Neuer Krisenbogen in Lateinamerika
Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
Why is Liberal Peace-building so Difficult? Some Lessons from Central America
According to the liberal peace-building paradigm the termination of war is a window of opportunity for fundamental change. Central America has been one of the first laboratories of international policies promoting the threefold transformation process of pacification, democratization and economic liberalization. Although none of the postwar countries (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala) slipped back into war, serious deficits abound that can neithe…
Sicherheitspolitik in Lateinamerika
The ‘Happy Outcomes’ May Not Come at All – Postwar Violence in Central America
The non-recurrence of war is mostly considered as the main indicator for successful peace processes. Nevertheless, even in these postwar contexts, other forms of violence – i.e. state repression or homicide – have the potential to endanger the larger process of peace-building. Hence, the analysis of variations in postwar violence is important for the broader peace processes. Three interdependent factors explain variations in postwar violence: the…
Introduction
(2013). Introduction: Institutions for Sustainable Peace? Determinants and Effects of Institutional Choices in Divided Societies. Civil Wars: Vol. 15, Institutions for Sustainable Peace? Determinants and Effects of Institutional Choices in Divided Societies, pp. 1-6
Voting is not enough
The role of children and young people in war has received much attention, though their political activism after war's end is rarely discussed. Political liberalisation generally widens participatory opportunities for youths 18 years and older. But citizenship is defined by more than the right to vote every few years; citizens must also be granted voice and agency. This paper analyses the relation between youth political citizenship and peacebuild…
Judicial Reform – A Neglected Dimension of SSR in El Salvador
Security Sector Reform is an integral part of peace-building but the focus of international actors tends to be on formal state security providers. This article argues that reforms in the judicial system are key for the non-violent transformation of societal conflicts. Based on historical institutionalism a theoretical argument links justice and peace. Reforms of the judiciary need to be an integral part of SSR because otherwise reforms in the mil…
Understanding the relation between war economies and post-war crime
Even when armed conflicts formally end, the transition to peace is not clear-cut. Mounting evidence suggests that it is rather ‘unlikely to see a clean break from violence to consent, from theft to production, from repression to democracy, or from impunity to accountability’. The transition out of war is a complex endeavour, interrelated in many cases with other transformations such as changes in the political regime (democratisation) and in the …
The limits of peace in Latin America
Latin American governments frequently emphasise the democratic and peaceful order in the region. These claims are based on two developments: First, except for Cuba, the region has experienced processes of democratisation since the early 1980s. Second, since the 1990s, a series of long-lasting civil wars have ended with negotiated settlements and without a relapse into war. Based on such a superficial analysis, Latin America can be perceived as a …
Covid-19 als Chance für den Frieden
Ende März 2020 rief UN-Generalsekretär Guterres angesichts der Bedrohung durch die Covid-19-Pandemie dazu auf, weltweit die Waffen ruhen zu lassen. Obwohl diese Initiative von 171 Regierungen begrüßt wurde, ist es nicht einmal kurzfristig zu einer umfassenden Gewaltreduktion in zentralen Konfliktgebieten gekommen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie in zwei regional wie global bedeutsamen Konfliktländern, Kolum…
Building Pathways to Peace
SSR is a key element of the transitions out of war, aiming at the establishment of accountable and legitimate institutions able to prevent and sanction the use of violence. While recognizing the need to include local actors, donor policies still focus mostly on the state as a provider of security. Second generation SSR has emphasized the need to include local communities and recognize the existence of non-state actors in the provision of security…
Promoting Peace and Impunity? Amnesty Laws after War in El Salvador and beyond
Amnesty laws are a widespread practice in the transition from war to peace. They often aim at the transformation of violent conflict by making promises about exemptions from liability for war crimes. Critics argue that amnesties are in violation of international law and reproduce impunity in post-war societies, whereas supporters of amnesty laws focus on their peace-promoting features. Previous research has extensively looked into the second aspe…
Variations of Peace in Colombia
Peace and conflict are not the same across territories and scales.Conceptualizing peace as a process based on three core functions of society and related normsprovision of security, participation and conflict transformationallows us to identify variations in peacebuilding needs and perceptions.Methodologically, the article first develops a conceptual framework and then tests it with a case study of Colombiaa subnationally diverse country with a l…
Non-state armed actors, war economies and postwar violence – Examining the connections
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006070 Universidad de los Andes
From Hope to Uncertainty to Lessons Learned
To Fr. Javier Giraldo (1944-2026), a tireless human rights defender and champion of peace and social justice in Colombia. His lessons inspired many generations of social activists and human rights defenders. His memory will surely inspire many more to keep working, against all odds, for a Colombia with rights, peace, freedom, social justice, inclusion and equity. Ten years after the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP…
Colombia’s War Economy – An Obstacle to Peace?
War economies are frequently seen as a main hindrance for peacebuilding. Over the last ten years, the persistence of the drug economy has been an important element of the Colombian narrative to explain postwar violence. However, high levels of variation at the sub-national level suggest there is no deterministic relation between war economies and postwar violence. While they all rank high in terms of illicit crop density, violence levels (in term…
Political science (13 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (11 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (6 works) · Development economics (6 works)