ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

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This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the postCold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the postCold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These emerge from the liberal peaces internal contradictions from its claim to offer a universal normative and epistemological basis for peace and to offer a technology and process which can be applied to achieve it. When viewed from a range of contextual and local perspectives these topdown and distant processes often appear to represent power rather than humanitarianism or emancipation. Yet the liberal peace also offers a civil peace and emancipation. These tensions enable a range of hitherto little understood local and contextual peacebuilding agencies to emerge which renegotiate both the local context and the liberal peace framework leading to a localliberal hybrid form of peace. This might be called a postliberal peace. Such processes are examined in this book in a range of different cases of peacebuilding and statebuilding since the end of the Cold War. This book will be of interest to students of peacebuilding peacekeeping peace and conflict studies international organisations and IR/Security Studies.Introduction Part 1: The Romanticisation of the Local 1. Civil Society Needs Welfare 2. The Culture of Liberal Peacebuilding 3. Critical Perspectives of Liberal Peacebuilding: Cambodia Bosnia Herzegovina Kosovo and Timor Leste 4. DeRomanticising the Local: Implications for PostLiberal Peacebuilding Part 2: Hybridity and The Infrapolitics of Peace 5. Everyday Critical Agency and Resistance in Peacebuilding 6. Deromanticising the Local DeMystifying the International: Aspects of the LocalLiberal Hybrid. Conclusion: The Birth of A PostLiberal PeaceMuch of the credit for the seismic shift in reconceptualising peace and peacebuilding must go to Oliver Richmond. His latest book answers headon the antipolitical fatalism that there is no alternative to a liberal peace.
Data Publikacji: 2011-06-14
Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 530 gr