Oliver P Richmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 353645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver P Richmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver P |
| FAMILY NAME | Richmond |
| SIGNATURE | RICHMOND O P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 581 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Ukraine and the End of Peacemaking
The war in Ukraine has become a barometer for the worldwide transition away from a once-ambitious liberal order based upon negotiated settlements, institutions, law, and mutually agreed rules. The liberal international order, established after the Second World War with the institutionalization of the UN and the Bretton Woods system, tentatively offered human rights, democratic representation, and the rule of law—all of which were calculated to re…
Peace in an authoritarian international order versus peace in the liberal international order
Peace praxis reconstituted itself after the Cold War into liberal peacebuilding aimed at maintaining the liberal international order (LIO). This evolution was supposed to represent a comprehensive synergy of the scholarship and practices that had emerged since the formation of the state system itself. Due to its flirtation with neo-liberalism and militarism, as well as various epistemological anachronisms, Cold War and post-Cold War liberalism ha…
Peacemaking and the Maintenance of International Order: Alignment under Hegemony versus Multipolar Misalignment
With the publication of Agenda for Peace, the UN system opened its peace interventions up to critiques that allowed a tentative incorporation of critical, ethnographic, feminist, and rights-based approaches. Yet, subsequent efforts to reform the international peace architecture have been more limited, reflecting geopolitical interests rather than critical methodologies. Since the 1990s, two trends have occurred: within the liberal international o…
Failed Peacemaking: Counter-Peace and International Order
Peace in Digital International Relations: Prospects and Limitations
The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding is currently responding to a shift from 'analogue' to 'digital' approaches in international relations. This is affecting conflict management, intervention, peacebuilding, and the all-important role of civil society. This Element analyses the potential that these new digital forms of international relations offer for the reform of peace praxis – namely, the enhancement of critical a…
Peace: A Very Short Introduction
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies,…
Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
Local Legitimacy and International Peacebuilding
Furthering the understanding of the legitimate authority in internationally-led peace-and state-building interventions This study focuses on understanding the complexities of legitimate authority in internationally led peace- and statebuilding interventions Innovative theoretical approach, engaging with local and contextual forms of legitimacy in peacebuilding contexts Introduces nuanced understandings of the concept of legitimacy Based on wide r…
Peace in International Relations
This updated and revised second edition examines the conceptualisation and evolution of peace in International Relations (IR) theory. The book examines the concept of peace and its usage in the main theoretical debates in IR, including realism, liberalism, constructivism, critical theory, and post-structuralism, as well as in the more direct debates on peace and conflict studies. It explores themes relating to culture, development, agency, and st…
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies
Interventionary order and its methodologies: The relationship between peace and intervention
1Recently there have been calls from policymakers around the world for practically engaged research to produce evidence-based policy for peace, security and development. Policymakers aim to align three types of methodological approaches to knowledge about peace, security and development in international order: methodological liberalism at state and international levels, aligned with ‘methodological everydayism’ in order to constrain methodologica…
Peace in the Twenty-First Century: States, Capital and Institutions
Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation
Western struggles—and failures—to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking book, Oliver Richmond asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners’ failure to understand or en…
Subcontracting Peace: The Challenges of the NGO Peacebuilding
The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace
In this handbook, a diverse range of leading scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental underpinnings of peace. This handbook is a much-needed response to the failu
Post-Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Peace Formation and State Formation
Explores the interplay of forces that shape ‘peace formation’ in modern conflict-affected states 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 …
Post-Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Peace Formation and State Formation
Why is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be ‘failed by design’? This book explores the interplay of local peace agency with the (neo)liberal peacebuilding project. It looks at how far 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…
Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies
Throughout history, wherever there has been conflict and violence, institutions and processes aimed at peace stability and order have emerged simultaneously in and across society. Conflict often overwhelms them, though in the long term some form of peace returns, normally of a negative type. Understanding and engaging with the processes of "peace formation," in which localized, networked political agency is exercised to achieve a range of social,…
Failed Statebuilding Versus Peace Formation
Palestinian unity and everyday state formation: Subaltern ‘ungovernmentality’ versus elite interests
With Palestine gaining increasing international recognition for its sovereignty aspirations, this paper investigates the ongoing Palestinian state-formation process. It examines how far grassroots movements, domestic political leaderships and international actors have promoted or undermined intra-Palestinian unity and societal consensus around the rules, design and extent of a future Palestinian state. The paper introduces the novel concept of ev…
Security cosmopolitanism or ‘securitopia: An Ontological Trap and a Half-Hearted Response to Structural War
Anthony Burke has written an important piece: yet it is one of which security communities around the world probably will not take much note. Perhaps, in future historical or theoretical retrospecti
Peace in history
‘Peace in history’ considers the significance of violence for contemporary international relations by looking at different forms and key dimensions of peace in history. A common historical belief is that humanity is unable to fulfil its potential without peace. As well as there being a ‘will to power’ there is also a ‘will to peace’. There will always be a need for conflict and a need for peace. The historic evolution of peace has moved from a ne…
Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and statebuilding
‘Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and statebuilding’ examines four generational approaches to peace which are aimed at consolidating the liberal peace system and international, state, and civil architecture. These are: a first generational approach aimed at a negative peace; a second generational approach focused on social reconciliation and a social peace; a third generational approach focused on building liberal peace through various measures such …
The Local Turn in Peace Building: A critical agenda for peace
This article unpacks the renaissance of interest in ‘the local’ in peace building. It pays increased attention to local dimensions of peace in a wider context of increased assertiveness by local actors as well as a loss of confidence by major actors behind international peace-support actors. The article sees the ‘local turn’ in peace building as part of a wider critical turn in the study of peace and conflict, and focuses on the epistemological c…
Where now for the critique of the liberal peace
This article seeks to take stock of the critique of the liberal peace and identify what it has and has not achieved. It also asks ‘where do we go from here?’ The article surveys an agenda for future research and can also be read as a rebuttal of some recent literature that has attempted to shut down the liberal peace debate. The article opens with a quick recap of the bases of the critique of the liberal peace. It then outlines the ‘achievements’…
The dilemmas of a hybrid peace: Negative or positive
Hybrid forms of peace represent a juxtaposition between international norms and interests and local forms of agency and identity. A first stage may be tense forms of hybrid politics that maintain structural violence, fail to resolve the contradictions between local and international norms, and reflect the outsourcing of colonial style rule. This could be characterised as, or lead to, a negative form of hybrid peace. A positive form of hybrid peac…
Critical agency, resistance and a post-colonial civil society
IR’s dominant theoretical and methodological approaches are, to varying degrees, compliance oriented. IR needs a theory of resistance if it is to survive its current methodological and ethical crisis. Resistance, read from a broadly Foucaultian perspective, is a process in which hidden, small-scale and marginal agencies have an impact on power, on norms, civil society, the state and the ‘international’. This may be in the form of individual or gr…
The problem of peace: Understanding the 'Liberal Peace
To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace. Pope John Paul II, 1 1. Pope John Paul II, 25 February 1981. 1981 Pax Invictis2 2. ‘Peace to the undefeated’ or the victor's peace. Inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Solider in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, Australia. Virtue runs amok. Attributed to G.K. Chesterton This essay examines the development of the liberal peace, identifying its internal components and the often-ignored tensions betw…
Failed statebuilding versus peace formation
This article outlines the often countervailing forces and norms of state formation, statebuilding and peacebuilding according to their associated theoretical approaches. It introduces a new concept of ‘peace formation’, which counterbalances a reliance on internal violent or externalised institutions’ agency, reform and conditionality. Without incorporating a better understanding of the multiple and often critical agencies involved in peace forma…
A post-liberal peace: Eirenism and the everyday
The ‘liberal peace’ is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy at the level of the everyday in post-conflict environments. In many such environments; different groups often locally constituted perceive it to be ethically bankrupt, subject to double standards, coercive and conditional, acultural, unconcerned with social welfare, and unfeeling and insensitive towards its subjects. It is tied to Western and liberal conceptions of the state, to institution…
Coopting Liberal Peace-building: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo
The liberal peace framework aims to regulate, govern and empower the individual in a democratic and pluralist milieu. Yet liberal peace-building, even on the scale and depth employed in the international governance of Kosovo, is susceptible to local cooption, particularly where one group can adopt the language of the liberal peace and has strong support and credibility from the international community. This has led to a focus on achieving stateho…
Emancipatory Forms of Human Security and Liberal Peacebuilding
Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and reconstruction are activities now closely associated with state-building, and in this context human security has become a validating concept of the overall project's goals, even though many international actors working in non-civil-society -oriented areas would not use this term to describe their work. Indeed, many orthodox thinkers argue that that this concept is too broad or ambitious to be acted upon. Yet at th…
A Pedagogy of Peacebuilding: Infrapolitics, Resistance, and Liberation1
A post-liberal peace engages with the politics of hybridity emerging from a mixture of contextual and international social, political, economic, cultural, and historical dynamics of peace. It represents an attempt to escape liberal enclosure and distant administration as well as contextual forms of violence in post-conflict zones—from Bosnia Herzegovina to Afghanistan. Critical agency as a form of resistance aimed at liberation from the structure…
Peace in International Relations
This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, and in the policy world as exemplified through practices in the peacebuilding efforts since the end of the Cold War. Issues addressed include the problem of how peace efforts become sustainable rather than merel…
Emerging Actors in International Peacebuilding and Statebuilding: Status Quo or Critical States
Emerging actors in peacebuilding are generating a slow transformation of the norms and praxes of international peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development. Although each of the emerging donors have different contexts, approaches, motives, and methodologies, their power, influence, and—crucially— their nonadherence to the principles of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have attract…
Interventionary order and its methodologies: The relationship between peace and intervention
1Recently there have been calls from policymakers around the world for practically engaged research to produce evidence-based policy for peace, security and development. Policymakers aim to align three types of methodological approaches to knowledge about peace, security and development in international order: methodological liberalism at state and international levels, aligned with ‘methodological everydayism’ in order to constrain methodologica…
Human Security and its Subjects
INTRODUCTIONThe UN has changed the world by combining liberal internationalism, the state, and liberal institutionalism, as well as by endeavouring to place the subjects of security first. The notion of human security (HS) emerged through these processes and through the convergence of various concepts, including peacekeeping, human rights, development, and peace-building. HS has been central to the UN's recent normative and legal impact and to th…
Palestinian unity and everyday state formation: Subaltern ‘ungovernmentality’ versus elite interests
With Palestine gaining increasing international recognition for its sovereignty aspirations, this paper investigates the ongoing Palestinian state-formation process. It examines how far grassroots movements, domestic political leaderships and international actors have promoted or undermined intra-Palestinian unity and societal consensus around the rules, design and extent of a future Palestinian state. The paper introduces the novel concept of ev…
Foucault and the Paradox of Peace-as-Governance Versus Everyday Agency: Foucault and the Paradox of Peace-as-Governance Versus Everyday Agency
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Peace in an authoritarian international order versus peace in the liberal international order
Peace praxis reconstituted itself after the Cold War into liberal peacebuilding aimed at maintaining the liberal international order (LIO). This evolution was supposed to represent a comprehensive synergy of the scholarship and practices that had emerged since the formation of the state system itself. Due to its flirtation with neo-liberalism and militarism, as well as various epistemological anachronisms, Cold War and post-Cold War liberalism ha…
Peacemaking and the Maintenance of International Order: Alignment under Hegemony versus Multipolar Misalignment
With the publication of Agenda for Peace, the UN system opened its peace interventions up to critiques that allowed a tentative incorporation of critical, ethnographic, feminist, and rights-based approaches. Yet, subsequent efforts to reform the international peace architecture have been more limited, reflecting geopolitical interests rather than critical methodologies. Since the 1990s, two trends have occurred: within the liberal international o…
The Complex Relationship Between Peacebuilding and Terrorism Approaches: Towards Post-Terrorism and a Post-Liberal Peace
Approaches to terrorism and peacebuilding have a complex relationship with each other, which may be explained according to four categories outlined in this article. These range from blocking each others’ aims, nullifying terrorism, supporting a very limited, or a broader peace process. Each of these categories has implications for the inclusion and reconciliation of a wide range of actors and the hybrid nature of the emerging peace. This relates …
Security cosmopolitanism or ‘securitopia: An Ontological Trap and a Half-Hearted Response to Structural War
Anthony Burke has written an important piece: yet it is one of which security communities around the world probably will not take much note. Perhaps, in future historical or theoretical retrospecti
Intimate yet dysfunctional? The relationship between governance and conflict resolution in India and the European Union
The rise of India and the EU as global actors has sparked growing interest in their peace-building approaches. This paper compares the objectives and effects of the EU's and India's engagement in different conflict contexts within and alongside their borders. It examines whether their practices of conflict resolution or peace-building strive for more than conflict management or ‘governmentality’. This article asks whether there is sufficient cons…
International Relations and the challenges of global communication
We live in an interconnected, hyper-mediated world. A plethora of communications surrounds our everyday lives and polities, whilst new media and technologies have brought forth possibilities for, and ways of, communicating across space and time. Long-distance communication and travelling, the accelerated flow of information, ideas, images and sounds across national and other frontiers, the construction of multinational urban centres and global me…
Shared sovereignty and the politics of peace: Evaluating the EU's 'catalytic' framework in the eastern Mediterranean
There has been a consistent failure on the part of international actors over the past four decades to resolve the Cyprus problem. The EU framework, heralded as a catalyst, has failed so far to bring the two sides together, despite the significant advantages it possesses in linking resolution of the Cyprus problem with the Turkish ambition to join the EU. Cyprus has always been a testing ground for experimental approaches to dealing with conflict,…
States of sovereignty, sovereign states, and ethnic claims for international status
Sovereignty is heavily contested by existing states which view the survival of territorial sovereignty as vital to international order and many ethnic groups that see states as an obstacle to their own claims to sovereignty. This article looks at how and why ethnic claims to sovereignty arise. It examines when such claims may emerge, what forms such claims may take, the benefits ethnic groups perceive may accrue, and the implications for the inte…
The Work of the UN in Cyprus: Promoting Peace and Development
The United Nations has rarely been given a fair hearing with regard to its work in Cyprus. Despite competing demands for its limited resources being challenged by the local parties and at the mercy of contradictory political directions at the international level, the UN has actually achieved more than is generally realized. This is the first volume to critically appraise all the major areas of the UN's peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace buildin…
States of sovereignty, sovereign states, and ethnic claims for international status
Sovereignty is heavily contested by existing states which view the survival of territorial sovereignty as vital to international order and many ethnic groups that see states as an obstacle to their own claims to sovereignty. This article looks at how and why ethnic claims to sovereignty arise. It examines when such claims may emerge, what forms such claims may take, the benefits ethnic groups perceive may accrue, and the implications for the inte…
Peace in International Relations
This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, and in the policy world as exemplified through practices in the peacebuilding efforts since the end of the Cold War. Issues addressed include the problem of how peace efforts become sustainable rather than merel…
Mitigating Conflict: The Role of NGOs
This title examines the roles and new opportunities arising from the increasing participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in peace-making, peacekeeping and peace-building processes, both formal and informal, state-sponsored and unofficial. Drawing on both academic experts and activists, this study brings together contributions from those who have observed how NGOs have sought to reflect civil society concerns, provide humanitarian re…
The Transformation of Peace
This book examines the transformation of the discourse and praxis of peace, from its early beginnings in the literature on war and power, to the development of intellectual and theoretical discourses
The problem of peace: Understanding the 'Liberal Peace
To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace. Pope John Paul II, 1 1. Pope John Paul II, 25 February 1981. 1981 Pax Invictis2 2. ‘Peace to the undefeated’ or the victor's peace. Inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Solider in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, Australia. Virtue runs amok. Attributed to G.K. Chesterton This essay examines the development of the liberal peace, identifying its internal components and the often-ignored tensions betw…
Shared sovereignty and the politics of peace: Evaluating the EU's 'catalytic' framework in the eastern Mediterranean
There has been a consistent failure on the part of international actors over the past four decades to resolve the Cyprus problem. The EU framework, heralded as a catalyst, has failed so far to bring the two sides together, despite the significant advantages it possesses in linking resolution of the Cyprus problem with the Turkish ambition to join the EU. Cyprus has always been a testing ground for experimental approaches to dealing with conflict,…
Emancipatory Forms of Human Security and Liberal Peacebuilding
Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and reconstruction are activities now closely associated with state-building, and in this context human security has become a validating concept of the overall project's goals, even though many international actors working in non-civil-society -oriented areas would not use this term to describe their work. Indeed, many orthodox thinkers argue that that this concept is too broad or ambitious to be acted upon. Yet at th…
International Relations and the challenges of global communication
We live in an interconnected, hyper-mediated world. A plethora of communications surrounds our everyday lives and polities, whilst new media and technologies have brought forth possibilities for, and ways of, communicating across space and time. Long-distance communication and travelling, the accelerated flow of information, ideas, images and sounds across national and other frontiers, the construction of multinational urban centres and global me…
Coopting Liberal Peace-building: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo
The liberal peace framework aims to regulate, govern and empower the individual in a democratic and pluralist milieu. Yet liberal peace-building, even on the scale and depth employed in the international governance of Kosovo, is susceptible to local cooption, particularly where one group can adopt the language of the liberal peace and has strong support and credibility from the international community. This has led to a focus on achieving stateho…
Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding
This book examines the nature of 'liberal peace': the common aim of the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Adopting a particularly critical stance on this one-size-fits-all paradigm, it explores the process by breaking down liberal peace theory into its constituent parts: democratisation, free market reform and development, human rights, civil society, and the rule of law. Readers are provided with critically and t…
Between partition and pluralism: The Bosnian jigsaw and an ‘ambivalent peace’
This article argues that the attempted creation of a liberal state in Bosnia and Herzegovina by various international actors has failed to generate legitimacy among the local population. While the Dayton agreements institutionalized ethnic divisions, the post‐Dayton reconstruction process was dominated by Western liberal discourses that have tended to marginalize local voices. Thereby, a conservative version of the liberal peace has been institut…
A post-liberal peace: Eirenism and the everyday
The ‘liberal peace’ is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy at the level of the everyday in post-conflict environments. In many such environments; different groups often locally constituted perceive it to be ethically bankrupt, subject to double standards, coercive and conditional, acultural, unconcerned with social welfare, and unfeeling and insensitive towards its subjects. It is tied to Western and liberal conceptions of the state, to institution…
Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding
The quality of the peace arrived at via liberal peacebuilding approaches has been poor. The related statebuilding praxis has generally been unable to respond to its critics. What is at stake is a reco
"Para além da paz liberal? respostas ao "retrocesso
A ortodoxia familiar de construção da paz liberal depende da transplantação e da exportação de condicionalidade e dependência, com vistas a consolidar um contrato social entre populações, seus governos e o Estado, em que repouse uma paz liberal legítima e consensual. O que, com frequência, ocorre, é uma forma híbrida de paz liberal, sujeita a críticas locais poderosas, à resistência, por vezes, e à percepção de que a construção da paz internacion…
Foucault and the Paradox of Peace-as-Governance Versus Everyday Agency: Foucault and the Paradox of Peace-as-Governance Versus Everyday Agency
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Resistance and the Post-Liberal Peace
Critical agency, resistance and a post-colonial civil society
IR’s dominant theoretical and methodological approaches are, to varying degrees, compliance oriented. IR needs a theory of resistance if it is to survive its current methodological and ethical crisis. Resistance, read from a broadly Foucaultian perspective, is a process in which hidden, small-scale and marginal agencies have an impact on power, on norms, civil society, the state and the ‘international’. This may be in the form of individual or gr…
A Post-Liberal Peace
This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements. Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These emerge from the liberal peace’s internal contradictions, from its claim to offer a universal normative and epistemological basis for peace, and to offe…
Hybrid Forms of Peace: From Everyday Agency to Post-Liberalism
This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international acto
The evolution of peace: A review of The glorious art of peace
Reviews the book, The Glorious Art of Peace by John Gittings (2012). This is a wonderful study of the subtler “arts of peace” and a welcome relief from the somewhat crass valorization-through-pragmatism of the usual power-, war-, and violence-based contributions to human political history. Detailed and well-written chapters cover several dimensions of peace: perceptions, history, morality, humanism, peace consciousness, alternatives, and modern d…
The Complex Relationship Between Peacebuilding and Terrorism Approaches: Towards Post-Terrorism and a Post-Liberal Peace
Approaches to terrorism and peacebuilding have a complex relationship with each other, which may be explained according to four categories outlined in this article. These range from blocking each others’ aims, nullifying terrorism, supporting a very limited, or a broader peace process. Each of these categories has implications for the inclusion and reconciliation of a wide range of actors and the hybrid nature of the emerging peace. This relates …
A Pedagogy of Peacebuilding: Infrapolitics, Resistance, and Liberation1
A post-liberal peace engages with the politics of hybridity emerging from a mixture of contextual and international social, political, economic, cultural, and historical dynamics of peace. It represents an attempt to escape liberal enclosure and distant administration as well as contextual forms of violence in post-conflict zones—from Bosnia Herzegovina to Afghanistan. Critical agency as a form of resistance aimed at liberation from the structure…
Mediating in Cyprus: The Cypriot Communities and the United Nations
The UN peacemaking operation in Cyprus has been one of the longest of its kind, but has resulted in discarded proposals, non-papers or reports. This study investigates the Cypriot parties' views of peacemaking, to shed light on the problem, and on the theoretical debates surrounding mediation
The Local Turn in Peace Building: A critical agenda for peace
This article unpacks the renaissance of interest in ‘the local’ in peace building. It pays increased attention to local dimensions of peace in a wider context of increased assertiveness by local actors as well as a loss of confidence by major actors behind international peace-support actors. The article sees the ‘local turn’ in peace building as part of a wider critical turn in the study of peace and conflict, and focuses on the epistemological c…
Political science (62 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (53 works) · Sociology (50 works) · Law (49 works) · Politics (41 works) · Political economy (36 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (30 works) · Peacebuilding (26 works) · Public Administration (23 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (21 works)