Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-023763-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

As Oliver Richmond explains, there is a level to peacemaking that operates in the realm of dialogue, declarations, symbols and rituals. But after all this pomp and circumstance is where the reality of security, development, politics, economics, identity, and culture figure in; conflict, cooperation, and reconciliation are at their most vivid at the local scale. Thus local peace operations are crucial to maintaining order on the ground even in the most violent contexts. However, as Richmond argues, such local capacity to build peace from the inside is generally left unrecognized, and it has been largely ignored in the policy and scholarly literature on peacebuilding.

In Peace and Political Order, Richmond looks at peace processes as they scale up from local to transnational efforts to consider how to build a lasting and productive peace. He takes a comparative and expansive look at peace efforts in conflict situations in countries around the world to consider what local voices might suggest about the inadequacy of peace processes engineered at the international level. As well, he explores how local workers act to modify or resist peace processes headed by international NGOs, and to what degree local actors have enjoyed success in the peace process (and how they have affected the international peace process).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richmond, Oliver P.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part 1: Theorizing the Social Formation of Peace

- Chapter I: Peace Formation, Local Dynamics and Transversal Networks

- Chapter II: Four Paths for Peace Formation

- Part 2: Reconstructing the Empirical Evidence

- Chapter III: Peace Formation in Practice

- Chapter IV: Cases Studies in Peace Formation I: Potential and Limitations

- Chapter V: Case Studies in Peace Formation II: Transforming the State and Addressing the Causal Factors of the Conflict

- Chapter VI: Infrastructures for Peace: Negative or Positive Hybrid Peace?

- Conclusion

- Appendix A

- Appendix A1

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester.