Synopses & Reviews
This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors. Building on critiques of liberal peace-building, itredefines critical peace and conflict studies. Based on new research from 16 countries.
About the Author
OLIVER P. RICHMOND is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He has published widely in the area of Peace and Conflict Studies.
AUDRA MITCHELL is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Lost in Transformation: Violent Peace and Peaceful Conflict in Northern Ireland.
Table of Contents
Towards a Post-Liberal Peace: Exploring Hybridity: Via Everyday Forms of Resistance, Agency, and Autonomy;
O.P.Richmond &
A.MitchellAgency and the Everyday Activist; A.M.S.Watson
Post-Conflict Justice and Hybridity in Peacebuilding: Resistance or Cooptation?; C.L.Sriram
Hybrid Tribunals: Interaction and Resistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cambodia; O.Martin-Ortega and J.Herman
Hybrid Forms of Peace and Order on a South Sea Island: Experiences from Bougainville (Papua New Guinea); V.Boege
Looking for the Owner of the House - Who is Making Peace in Rural East Timor?; M.A.Brown& A.Gusmao
Co-optation, Acceptance and Resistance in the Somali 'Everyday'; K.Sandstrom
From the Air-Conditioned Offices to the Everyday: the Kinshasa Street Parliamentarians and the Popular Reclaiming of Democracy; M.De Goede
The Practical Representation of Peacebuilding: An (Auto)ethnography of Programme Evaluation in Tajikistan; J.Heathershaw
Security, Cooptation and Resistance: Peacebuilding-as-fragmentation in Palestine; M.Turner
Hybrid Reconstruction: The Case of Waad in Lebanon; R.MacGinty
What Turks and Kurds 'Make of' Europe: Subversion, Negotiation and Appropriation in the European Periphery; B.Rumelili
Comfortable Conflict and (Il)liberal Peace in Cyprus; C.Adamides & C.Constantinou
Liberal Peacebuilding's Representation of 'the Local': The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina; S.Kappler
'Walking' in North Belfast with Michel De Certeau: Strategies of Peace-building, Everyday Tactics and Hybridization; L.Kelly &A.Mitchell
Conclusion: Everyday Struggles for a Hybrid Peace; R.Bleiker