The Rise of China's Developmental Peace: Can an Economic Approach to Peacebuliding Create susitainable Peace?

The rise of China's international peace activities has brought new challenges to the notion and practice of peacebuilding. China employs a style of "developmental peace" in the developing countries of Asia and Africa. Developmental peace prioritises economic development without introducing change to the local government. This raises the question of whether or not a focus on economic development can create sustainable peace in postconflict societies. We are in a transition period where China is leading a new style of peacebuilding. China, dissatisfied with the current norms in international peace, is trying to challenge and contest Western-dominated norms of peacebuilding. The question is, can China's style of focusing mainly on addressing economic underdevelopment create sustainable peace in post-conflict societies?