Revisiting Liberal Peacebuilding: BRICS and Turkey in Somalia

Abstract

Maintaining and providing peace and security in conflict-affected statesare among the most crucial missions of the United Nations SecurityCouncil (UNSC). Among the methods of peacemaking and peacekeepingit employs, the UNSC also offers peacebuilding, which consists of helping conflict-affected states that are making the transition from war topeace. Unlike great powers that prioritize military intervention in theirpeacebuilding strategy, the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa(BRICS) and Turkey as models to rising powers prefer a political, institutional and economic development rather than military intervention, whichmakes their peacebuilding strategy liberal. Despite this general adoptionof liberal peacebuilding however, their practices in Somalia are different.Turkey has taken more liberal peacebuilding steps in Somalia than theBRICS, both in terms of approach and quantity. This article analyzes theliberal peacebuilding strategies of the BRICS and Turkey, and exploreshow these strategies have been implemented in Somalia.