The past two decades of peacebuilding policy, practice, and research have seen the gradual
emergence and consolidation of a significant discursive phenomenon. This apparently new …

Today, classical 'liberal peace'approaches to post-conflict development, based on imposing
a set of international policyprescriptions founded on universalist understandings of the …

This chapter argues that the language of relationality is a useful vehicle for navigating the
complexities of contemporary peacebuilding and for articulating the best impulses and …

This conclusion notes the rise of relationalism in theorizing peacebuilding and the
advantages of this approach as evident in the contributions to this special issue …

In recent years, hybridity has received a great deal of attention in the peacebuilding and
development literature. This 'rediscovery'of a concept with strong roots in critical and …

Over the last 20 years the local domain has gained widespread attention in the analysis of
peacebuilding. While this debate has contributed to an important review of many …

Introduction As a scholarly project, the concept of peacebuilding is undergoing a period of
reflection. As participants in a field inherently concerned with the policies, practices, and …

There is increasing interest in the role of legitimacy as an indicator of social and political
stability in post-war societies. In this chapter we provide an analytical framework to examine …

Critical peacebuilding scholars have focused on the impact of the encounter between the
'local'and the 'international', framing the notion of 'hybridity'as a conceptual mirror to the …

The failures of peace interventions are often associated with their exogenously conceived
and technocratic nature, which discount complexity within and diversity between post …