This article offers an insight into one of the main doctrinal shifts adopted by international organizations and states in light of the continued failures of externally-imposed peacebuilding efforts – the “local turn”.…
This article breaks down the creation of hybrid peace into four primary factors: the compliance powers possessed by liberal peacebuilding actors, the incentivizing powers of the liberal peace (particularly with regards…
This text offers a largely-theoretical conceptualization of “post-liberal peace”, a break from the dominant theory of peace as being the result of top-down, externally imposed systems of democratic political and…
This text applies a post-colonial lens to the dominance of internationally-sponsored liberal peacebuilding efforts in the Global South. Of particular note is the historical parallel drawn between the colonial-era…
This article examines how the concept of local ownership is interpreted in different visualizations of peace, ranging from the narrow scope of participation in liberal peacebuilding to communitarian peacebuilding’s…