This article undertakes a critical assessment of the local turn in critical peacebuilding
scholarship. It comes to the conclusion that the local turn is hampered by a binary and …

With the advent of the local turn in the mid-2000s, critical approaches have attempted to
rethink peace building from the bottom up, placing local agents at the centre of the debate …

Hybridity has emerged recently as a key response in International Relations and peace
studies to the crisis of liberal peace. Attributing the failures of liberal peacebuilding to a lack …

This article serves as an introduction to a special section on the question of the legitimacy of
non-state armed groups. Starting with a short discussion of the literature on armed groups as …

This article argues for a reflexive perspective on the 'local'in peacebuilding. While it is now
widely acknowledged that anything local is complex, unstable, and relational, scholars …

Over the past 20 years, there have been significant and historic breakthroughs in resolving
protracted ethnic conflicts in restive regions of several states in South and South-East Asia …

This chapter explores some current shortcomings inherent to post-liberal peacebuilding
research and indicated that empirical realities might not always coincide with its core …

Focusing on the disconnect between mainstream “liberal” peacebuilding and the discourses
and practices of “new” and “alternative” peacebuilding actors, this article develops a …

The evident failures of international peacebuilding and statebuilding interventions (PSBIs)
have recently prompted a focus on the interaction between interventions and target societies …

This book discusses the radical transformation of eastern Congo's political order in the
context of apparent armed destruction and state weakness. Looking beyond the dominant …