Post-Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Peace Formation and State Formation - Softcover

Oliver P. Richmond; Sandra Pogodda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474428401 ISBN 13: 9781474428408

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Why is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be failed by design ? This study explores the interplay of local peace agency with the (neo)liberal peacebuilding project. And it looks at how far can local peace formation dynamics can go to counteract the forces of violence and play a role in rebuilding the state, consolidate peace processes and induce a more progressive form of politics. By looking at local agency related to peace formation, Oliver Richmond and Sandra Pogodda find answers to the pressing question of how large-scale peacebuilding or statebuilding may be significantly improved and made more representative of the lives, needs, rights, and ambitions of its subjects.

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About the Author

Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute & Department of Politics Ellen Wilkinson Building, The University of Manchester. Sandra Pogodda is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester.

From the Back Cover

Explores the complex interplay of forces that shape 'peace' in the modern state Why do states that have emerged from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last quarter century appear to be 'failed by design'? What emerges from the interplay of local peace agency with the (neo)liberal peacebuilding project? How far can local 'peace formation' dynamics counteract the forces of violence and play a role in rebuilding the state, consolidating peace processes and inducing a more progressive form of politics? Picking up where Liberal Peace Transitions (2009) left off, this book looks at local agency related to peace formation in order to find answers to the pressing question of how large-scale peacebuilding or statebuilding may be significantly improved and made more representative of the lives, needs, rights and ambitions of its subjects. Oliver Richmond is a Research Professor in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. He is also International Professor AT THE College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø. His publications include Liberal Peace Transitions, (with Jason Franks, Edinburgh University Press, 2009). Sandra Pogodda is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on state-formation processes in the revolutionary societies of the Arab region, resistance movements, (post-) revolutionary challenges to peace and conflict studies and critical development studies. Cover image: the wall blocking Sheikh Rihan Street, at the corner of the American University in Cairo, 2012 (c) Mohammed Hossam/AFP/GettyImages Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474428401
• ISBN 13: 9781474428408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256