An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace.
In this pathbreaking book, Roger Mac Ginty explores everyday peace-or how individuals …

Bringing armed conflicts to an end is difficult; restoring a lasting peace can be considerably
harder. Reclaiming Everyday Peace addresses the effectiveness and impact of local level …

This book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the
ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In …

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 …

Both political scientists and development practitioners express renewed interest in the
'local'in peacebuilding, and a need to better engage with local communities' concerns …

Recent years have witnessed a “local turn” in the study and practice of peacebuilding,
international development, and transitional justice (TJ) that has emphasized the importance …

The primary aim of this article is methodological. It proposes circuitry as an analytical device–
not a mere metaphor–as a way of connecting the everyday and the hyper-local to the …

This book explores the last 25 years of international peacebuilding and recasts them as a
growing crisis of confidence in universal ideas of peacebuilding and self-government. Since …

While history has its fair share of cases of technologically ill-or under-equipped Davids
beating technologically supreme Goliaths, it is also true that–more often than not …

There is widespread consensus among peacebuilding practitioners and scholars on the
importance of integrating local knowledge into the design, planning, and implementation of …