Local legitimacy and international peacebuilding / edited by Oliver P. Richmond and Roger MacGinty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richmond, Oliver P., editor.

MacGinty, Roger, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building.

Peacekeeping forces.

Peace-building--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This edited volume focuses on disentangling the interplay of local peacebuilding processes and international policy, via comparative theoretical and empirical work on the question of legitimacy and authority.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword: The Riddle of Legitimacy

Introduction. Legitimacy and Peace in the Age of Intervention

One. The Hybridization of Legitimacy in Processes of Peace Formation: the Bougainville Case

Two. International Intervention and Relational Legitimacy

Three. From a Divisive Peace Agreement to a Legitimate Peace in Colombia

Four. Banners, Billy Clubs and Boomerangs: Leveraging and Counter-Leveraging Legitimacy in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Five. Peacebuilding as a Self-Legitimising System: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Six. ‘We Are There at Their Invitation’: Struggles for Legitimacy during the US Coalition Invasion–Occupation of Iraq

Seven. Inclusion and Performance as Sources of Legitimacy – the UN Mediation on Syria

Eight. Agonisation to Re-Legitimise the Postcolonial, Post-Confl ict Somaliland

Nine. Third Party Legitimacy and International Mediation: Peacemaking through Pan-Africanism in Sudan

Ten. Post-War Legitimacy: A Framework on Relational Agency in Peacebuilding

Eleven. Legitimacy in Lebanon

Conclusion. Peacebuilding and Legitimacy: Some Concluding Thoughts

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

ISBN:

9781474466288

1474466281

OCLC:

1306539730