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From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law

Author: Heike Krieger; Giedre Jokubauskaite; Asli Ozcelik; Andreas Buser
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198967378
Published In: May 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Across the globe, the number of protracted armed conflicts is rising, with many societies enduring the consequences of violence and conflict-related socio-economic disruption for decades. These enduring conflicts present complex and evolving challenges—legal, (geo)political, institutional, humanitarian, developmental, and environmental—that demand new approaches.

In response, policy frameworks increasingly advocate for the so-called Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (the 'Triple Nexus'), which seeks to bridge traditionally siloed agendas in favour of a more integrated response to protracted conflict. Yet, despite growing policy interest, the legal dimensions of protracted conflict and the implications of the Triple Nexus remain under-explored in international law.

From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? offers the first comprehensive legal and interdisciplinary examination of how international law engages with the realities of protracted conflict. Drawing on a wide range of legal fields—including international humanitarian law, development law, economic law, refugee law, human rights law, criminal law, and peacebuilding law—contributors explore how legal regimes interact, overlap, and at times conflict in these complex settings.

Through a conceptual framework and a series of thematic chapters, the volume addresses the lived impacts of protracted conflict, the role of international institutions and the challenges they face, and the potential of legal frameworks to respond to long-term crises. It provides scholars and practitioners with a vital resource for rethinking legal strategies in the face of enduring violence and for imagining pathways toward sustainable peace.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

1:Conceptualizing Protracted Conflicts and International Law

Andreas Buser, Giedre Jokubauskaite, Heike Krieger, and Asli Ozcelik

Part I. Protracted Conflicts and the 'Triple Nexus' in Perspective: Deconstructing Established Narratives

2:The 'Triple Nexus' and the Risk Management of Conflict, Kathryn Greenman

3:Peace or War? On the Logic of the 'Triple Nexus' from the Humanitarian Aid Perspective, Conrad Schetter and Janosch Prinz

4:Gender, Protracted Conflicts, and the Triple Nexus: A Feminist Critique, Olga Jurasz, Moa Peldán, and Leena Vastapuu

5:A Triple Nexus for Northern Central America? Protection, Development, and Peace under Protracted Criminal Violence, Pablo Kalmanovitz

6:Tensions Between Local and International Narratives of Conflict: USAID Discourses on Liberal Peace in Colombia, Johanna del Pilar Cortés Nieto, Andrés Gómez-Rey, Rafael Alberto Tamayo-Álvarez, and Andrés Rodríguez-Morales

Part II. Drivers, Consequences, and Interdependencies of Protracted Conflicts

7:International Law on Armed Conflict and Sustainable Food Security, Antonio Coco

8:The Human Right to Health in Protracted Conflicts: Duties and Responsibilities to Cooperate towards Building a Democratically Controlled Health System, Amrei Müller

9:A (Limited) Role of International Law in Tackling Environmental Degradation During Protracted Conflicts, Britta Sjöstedt

10:Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, Ben Saul

11:Refugees in Protracted Conflicts: The Lasting Legal Status of Multigenerational Palestinian Refugees, Mutaz M. Qafisheh and Jinan Bastaki

12:Potential and Limits of International Law in Addressing Protracted Displacement in the Sahel, Sâ Benjamin Traoré

Part III. Creating the Divide? (In)compatible Institutional Frameworks

13:Aligning Humanitarian Principles with Peace and Development Objectives, Marc DuBois

14:Overcoming Boundaries: Protracted Conflict, Inter-Institutional Cooperation, and the World Bank's Legal Constraints, Ansgar Münichsdorfer

15:Inter-Institutional Cooperation, Limited Mandates, and Challenge to Functional Immunities of International Institutions

16:The UN and Protracted Conflict, Martin Wählisch

Part IV. Bridging the Divide: A Key Role for Human Rights?

17:The Humanitarian-Peace-Development Nexus: What Role for Human Rights?, Andreas Buser

18:Protracted Conflicts and the Right to Water, Sofie-Marie Terrey

19:Rights-Based Approaches to Land in Protracted Conflicts, Daniëlla Dam de-Jong

20:Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights and Peacemaking: The Minoritization of the Lumads in the Bangsamoro Peace Processes, Armi Beatriz E. Bayot

21:Peace Agreements: A Foundation for Sustainable Peace and Development?, Amanda Cahill-Ripley

22:The Challenging Imperative of Ending the War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Pascal Sundi Mbambi, Patience Kabamba, and Abhisekh Rodricks

23:Conclusion: Towards a Holistic Approach to Armed Conflict, Andreas Buser, Heike Krieger, and Asli Ozcelik