David Cortright is Professor Emeritus at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Director of the Global Policy Initiative of the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. He is the author or co-editor of 22 books, including Governance for Peace: How Inclusive, Participatory and Accountable Institutions Promote Peace and Prosperity (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has served as a policy adviser on multilateral sanctions to the UN Counter Terrorism Committee and the UN Department of Political Affairs.
The withdrawal of U.S. military in Afghanistan is underway and the security situation is increasingly worsening. This blog explains why, unlike counterinsurgency, peacekeeping could actually work to stabilize the country as it is based on the consent of the parties of the civil war.
