On Hybrid Politics Orders and Emerging States: State-Formation in the Context of ‘Fragility’
Boege, Volker et al. 2008. In Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation, edited by Volker Boege et al., 2-21. Berlin: Berghof Foundation.
This extract from the Dialogue Handbook of the Berghof Foundation, a non-governmental organization and research institute specialized in developing sustainable peace strategies, focuses primarily on the development of hybrid political orders. These “hybrid” systems refer to instances where community-based institutions and practices complement the construction of a limited-scale national government, thereby ensuring that functions relying heavily on legitimacy are left in the hands of actors who are closest to the groups they claim to represent. This approach is outlined in two case studies of success, that of Somaliland and Bougainville, in which the international community played a notably limited role.