Luc Reychler: A Pioneer in Sustainable Peacebuilding Architecture

Part I. On the Author Luc Reychler.- Chapter 1. My personal and academic journey.- Chapter 2. Luc Reychler's Comprehensive Bibliography.- Part II. Luc Reychler's Selected Texts.- Chapter 3. Luc Reychler's Selected Texts.- Chapter 4. Values in Diplomatic Thinking: Peace and Preferred World Order.- Chapter 5. The Effectiveness of a Pacifist Strategy in Conflict Resolution.- Chapter 6. The Art of Conflict Prevention: Theory and Practice.- Chapter 7. Religion and Conflict.- Chapter 8. Lessons Learned from Recent Democratization Efforts.- Chapter 9. Peacebuilding: Conceptual Framework.- Chapter 10. Peacebuilding Software.- Chapter 11. Challenges of Peace Research.- Chapter 12. Intellectual Solidarity, Peace and Psychological Walls.- Chapter 13. Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding.- Chapter 14. Raison ou Déraison d'état:  Coercive Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa.- Chapter 15. Time, Temporament, and Sustainable Peace: The Essential Role of Time in Conflict and Peace.- Index.

Luc Reychler, PhD (Harvard, 1976), is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He was previously Director of the Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies (CPRS) and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) from 2004 to 2008. He has published widely on sustainable peacebuilding architecture, planning and evaluation of violence prevention and peace-building interventions, and multilateral negotiations. His books include Patterns of Diplomatic Thinking: A Cross-national Study of Structural and Social-psychological Determinants (New York: Praeger, 1979), Le défi de la paix au Burundi (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999), Democratic Peace-building and Conflict Prevention: the Devil is in the Transition (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1999), Peacebuilding: A Field Guide (Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener, 2001), and Time for Peace: The Essential Role of Time in Conflict and Peace Processes(Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2015). Since becoming Emeritus Professor in October 2010, he has dealt with ethics, good governance and conflict resolution in sports, especially Taekwondo, and he is currently working on a book concerning the role of humour in deep-rooted conflicts.
Professor Arnim Langer is Director of the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair in Building Sustainable Peace, and Professor of International Politics at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is further a Research Associate at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) at the University of Oxford and an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth. He was recently awarded a highly prestigious Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, which he took up in September 2017 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. His research focuses ongroup behaviour and