In the balance? Civil society and the peace process 2002-2008
Walton, Oliver and Saravanamuttu, Paikiasothy. In Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, edited by Jonathan Goodhand, Benedikt Korf, Jonathan Spencer, 183-200. Oxon:Routledge, 2011.…
Tag: Liberal Peace
Governance without Government in Somalia Spoilers, State Building, and the Politics of Coping
Menkhaus, Ken. 2006/2007. International Security 31, no. 3: 74-106. This source examines the troubled history of peacebuilding efforts in Somalia, a state that, since the collapse of its national government in 1991,…
Revisiting the Local Turn in Peacebuilding
Ejdus, Filip. 2020. In A Requiem For Peacebuilding, edited by Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, and Barbara Segaert, 41-58. Berlin: Springer Link. This article offers an insight into one of the main doctrinal shifts adopted…
Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2008. Cooperation and Conflict 43, no. 2: 139-159. This article further develops the concept of “local ownership” in international peacebuilding efforts and assesses the feasibility of a complementary…
Hybrid Peace: The Interaction Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Peace
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2010. Security Dialogue 41, no. 4: 391-412. This article breaks down the creation of hybrid peace into four primary factors: the compliance powers possessed by liberal peacebuilding actors, the…
A Post-Liberal Peace: Eirenism and the Everyday
Richmond, Oliver P. 2009. Review of International Studies 35, no. 3: 557-580. This text offers a largely-theoretical conceptualization of “post-liberal peace”, a break from the dominant theory of peace as being the…
International Peacebuilding and the ‘Mission Civilisatrice’
Paris, Roland. 2002. Review of International Studies 28, no. 4: 637-656. This text applies a post-colonial lens to the dominance of internationally-sponsored liberal peacebuilding efforts in the Global South. Of…
Understandings of Local Ownership
Von Billerbeck, Sarah B K. 2016. In Whose Peace? Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping, edited by Sarah B K von Billerbeck, 48-77. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This article examines how the concept of…
Beyond the Neoliberal Peace: From Conflict Resolution to Social Reconciliation
Lipschutz, Ronnie D. 1998. Social Justice 25, no. 4: 5-19. This article argues that neoliberal peacebuilding focuses far too heavily on military, technical, and economic justice while often ignoring the need to ensure…
Three pillars of the liberal peace
Doyle, Michael W. 2005. American political science review 99, no. 3: 463-466. This short journal piece introduces the “Liberal Peace Theory”, the concept of how peace is formed and maintained between liberal states in…