A post-liberal peace / Oliver P. Richmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richmond, Oliver P., author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict management.

Peace-building.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 offer a technology and process which can be applied to achieve it. When viewed from a range of contextual and local perspectives, these top-down

Contents:

Front Cover; A Post-liberal Peace; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The romanticisation of the local; 1.Civil society, needs and welfare; 2.The culture of liberal peacebuilding; 3. Critical perspectives of liberal peacebuilding: Cambodia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor Leste; 4.De-romanticising the local : implications for post-liberal peacebuilding; Part II: Hybridity and the infrapolitics of peacebuilding; 5.Everyday critical agency and resistance in peacebuilding

6. De-romanticising the local, de-mystifying the international: aspects of the local-liberal hybridConclusion: The birth of a post-liberal peace; Appendix 1: HDI and GINI data for post-conflict countries: from settlement to the present; Appendix 2: International versus local perspectives of peacebuilding in Bosnia; Appendix 3: Universal welfare support in transitional states (very rough model); Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-273) and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-68082-9

1-283-59027-1

9786613902726

0-203-81026-0

1-136-68083-7

9780203810262

OCLC:

810077950