ABSTRACT
This chapter draws reader's attention to diplomatic practices of re-making domestic institutions. It traces evolution of peacebuilding practices and debates as well as linkages between them. The chapter discusses legitimacy of intervention. It investigates means of establishing peace. There is, however, a twofold trend that makes diplomacy increasingly shape domestic institutions. First, the more diplomacy reaches into less traditional issue areas, such as development and the environment, the less its influence stops at state borders. Second, diplomacy has become much more pro-active in attempting to build peace than before. This chapter addresses the issue of re-making states by inquiring into the oughts and ought nots of diplomacy in facilitating peacebuilding. It looks at the three key debates: when ought the international community intervene to build peace, to what end, and with what means? Today's peacebuilding measures put more emphasis on facilitating compromises between parties than, say, what used to occur in the late 1990s.
