ABSTRACT
The end of the Cold War and rise in intra-state conflict led to a dramatic shift in peacebuilding approaches. In 1992 United Nations Secretary General Boutros Ghali conceptualized peace through a different framework, the Agenda for Peace. This blueprint outlined new options for peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping, which aimed to implement a more liberal approach to governance through promoting democracy, rule of law and a market economy to countries emerging from conflict. This approach, titled “Liberal Peace,” stemmed from Kantian ideas that democracies tend to be more pacifist in their foreign relations with others, and in the post-Cold War environment there was a push by the international community to not only assist with the non-recurrence of violence but to include a host of techniques to consolidate civil order and organize the structures for political and economic change.
