ABSTRACT
Internationally driven peace processes are launched with great fanfare, bedecked in the language of aspiration and generalities, and freighted with expectation. Yet while they start with high hopes and expectations and look to surge beyond challenging socio-economic conditions and political enmities, they too often give in to the impulse to brush past root causes and the injustices they entail. By the time that those involved in peacebuilding realize the severity and scale of the problems that dog their efforts, peace negotiations and subsequent peacebuilding activities are often already derailed or fatally discredited.
