{"id":263,"date":"2025-10-02T03:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/de-coning-cedric\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:04","slug":"de-coning-cedric","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-coning-cedric\/","title":{"rendered":"De Coning Cedric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"middle content\">\n<div class=\"column left\" id=\"columnleft\">\n<section class=\"block article author\">\n<div class=\"headline\">\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCedric de Coning<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-content\">\n<div class=\"about-author\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/de-coning-cedric\/670655-1-eng-gb\/de-coning-cedric_author.jpg\" alt=\"de Coning Cedric\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNorwegian Institute of International Affairs<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Dr. Cedric de Coning<\/b>(South Africa) heads the Peace Operations and Peacebuilding Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and he is also a Senior Advisor on Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding for ACCORD. He serves as Special Advisor to the Head of the Peace Support Operations Division of the African Union Commission. He is a member of the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Advisory Group for the Peacebuilding Fund, and he is a member of the Expert Reference Group of the Global Thematic Consultation on Conflict, Violence and Disaster of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the African Civilian Response Capacity for Peace Support Operations (AFDEM), and he serves on the editorial boards of the journals Global Governance and Peacebuilding. Cedric has a Ph.D. in Applied Ethics from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch. Recent publications include: \u201cRising Powers and the Future of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding\u201d (November 2013), \u201cPeacebuilding\u2019s Inherent Contradictions\u201d (March 2011); \u201cCoherence &#038; Coordination: The Limits of the Comprehensive Approach\u201d (2011); and the Civilian Dimension of the African Standby Force (2010).<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section class=\"content column wide left author content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"de Coning Cedric\">\n\t<a 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href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/human-security-blog\/peacebuilding-complexity-blind-spots-off-the-shelf-solutions-and-false-hope\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/images\/769670-5-eng-gb\/peacebuilding-complexity-blind-spots-off-the-shelf-solutions-and-false-hope_column.jpg\" alt=\"Peacebuilding complexity: blind spots, off-the-shelf solutions and false hope\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/human-security-blog\/peacebuilding-complexity-blind-spots-off-the-shelf-solutions-and-false-hope\/\">Peacebuilding complexity: blind spots, off-the-shelf solutions and false hope<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-coning-cedric\/\">Cedric de Coning<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t18 August 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tIn response to Seth Kaplan: shifting from externally designed to local solutions, and from seeing poverty as isolated to the periphery to it being interconnected with the global economy and its inequalities.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/human-security-blog\/peacebuilding-complexity-blind-spots-off-the-shelf-solutions-and-false-hope\/\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/human-security-blog\/peacebuilding-is-essentially-local\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/human-security-blog\/peacebuilding-is-essentially-local\/670671-1-eng-gb\/peacebuilding-is-essentially-local_column.jpg\" alt=\"Peacebuilding is essentially local\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/human-security-blog\/peacebuilding-is-essentially-local\/\">Peacebuilding is essentially local<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-coning-cedric\/\">Cedric de Coning<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t04 December 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tComplexity theory sheds light on the essential role of self-organization in sustainable peace consolidation\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" 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