This article reviews the recent academic and policy interest in hybridity and hybrid political
orders in relation to peacebuilding. It is sceptical of the ability of international actors to …

Scholarship on the dynamics of peace and conflict is in the midst of a geographic
renaissance. Within the discipline there is growing interest among political geographers in …

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 …

In a contested international order, ideas of liberal peacebuilding are being supplanted by
state-centric, authoritarian responses to internal armed conflicts. In this article we suggest …

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 …

How can we understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in
peacebuilding? This special issue contributes to ongoing debates on the precariousness of …

This article examines competing claims to political legitimacy and sovereignty in Myanmar's
conflict-affected areas of “limited statehood.” In the context of ceasefires and an emerging …

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 …

Attempts to build a liberal peace and a concurrent neoliberal state in Kosovo have not
managed to produce a sustainable and emancipatory peace. Instead, they have produced a …

The frequent failure of international peace missions and the 'crisis of the liberal peace'led to
the promotion of a local or cultural turn in peace research and work that focuses on the role …