Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding: Moving from Violence to Sustainable Peace. Edited by Bruce W. Dayton, Louis Kriesberg. New York: Routledge, 2009. 288 pp., $42.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-415-48085-7). The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations. Edited by Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk. New York: Routledge, 2009. 366 pp., $42.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-415-77629-5). The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post 9/11. Edited by Stephen Baranyi. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008, 440 pp., $29.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-804-76090-4). Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights. Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Slyomovic. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008. 272 pp., $27.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-1-59874-344-9). The end of the Cold War is often considered a turning point for an increasing engagement of the international community on preventing and resolving armed conflicts worldwide. The period also highlights the strengthening of UN efforts to organize multilateral efforts to sustain peace in turbulent regions, mostly through the development of more complex peacekeeping operations that would tackle not only the war violence, but also its causes and consequences. Such involvement was supported by guidelines presented in documents such as the Agenda for Peace (1992) and the Brahimi Report (2000). This new international approach to conflict resolution bases itself on the premise that a peaceful international environment has its foundations on stable, fully functional states that would allow political freedom and economic development to its citizens. In other words, international stability is linked to the Western, liberal model of states, whether target states are culturally and socially fit for such model or not. According to such expectations, a new political concept arose: peacebuilding. By and large, peacebuilding is a set of processes to resolve armed conflicts in order to achieve a sustainable peace and to restore normal politics. It includes, but is not limited to, democratization, political participation, and a free market. The general belief is that by transforming unstable states into fully functional political units, international community would prevent armed conflicts and political violence. Any dispute that may arise would be resolved through normal politics, that is, through non-violent paths. Former enemies would be turned into political rivals and the right to use of violence would be returned to state authorities, under the rule of law. One of the dimensions of peacebuilding is statebuilding. It consists of a set of procedures focused on strategies such as the strengthening of political institutions and the stimulus of economic development, the restoration …