Calls for a greater inclusion of local actors have featured for some time in debates on how to
make humanitarian action more efficient and address unequal power relations within the …

In this article, we suggest that taking a relational view of peace seriously is a fruitful avenue
for expanding current theoretical frameworks surrounding peace as a concept. Paving the …

For decades, peace and conflict studies have devoted more attention to conflict than to
peace, and despite its centrality, peace itself has been under-conceptualized. In this paper …

In this article, internationally supported peacebuilding is conceptualized as a cross-cultural
relational endeavour, with international and local actors engaged in multiple forms of …

In the face of the repeated failure of international peacebuilding to build peace, one strand of
the literature argues that failure can only be understood by 'zooming in'–by focusing on …

Life after war is intrinsically political for former combatants. As wars end, societies and
former combatants face a period of transition. This book explores the experience of coming …

The literature on peace has been filled with notions of peacebuilding in crisis or creating
more problems than it solves. However, as peacebuilding is critiqued for not fulfilling its …

Although the need for local ownership of peacebuilding is routinely emphasized, the
importance and the modalities of engaging with local cultures and traditions are not …

Anthropology and critical heritage studies share a rather negative view of the role of
bureaucracy in heritage management as utilised by the international community in post …

This is a literature-reviewing and conceptualizing article introducing a Special Issue that is
addressing the broad field of 'peacebuilding amidst violence'. We take as a point of …