Whilst the relation between local and global levels has been a long-standing concern of
humanitarian, development, and peace efforts, in recent years the term “localisation” has …

The term 'hybrid'has been widely incorporated into recent peacebuilding scholarship to
describe an array of peacebuilding endeavors, including hybrid peacekeeping missions …

To what extent are global rule-of-law norms, which external actors promote in post-conflict
states, localized? Who decides whether global standards or local particularities prevail …

This book aims to outline and promote an ethnographic approach to evaluating international
peacebuilding interventions in transitional states. While the evaluation of peacebuilding and …

Transitional justice is the dominant lens through which the world grapples with legacies of
mass atrocity, and yet it has rarely reflected the diversity of peace and justice traditions …

This article adds to current debates on hybridity by shifting attention from interactions
between entities to the enactment of authority. The notion of hybridity has helped move …

This book articulates a cosmopolitan theory of the principles which ought to regulate
belligerents' conduct in the aftermath of war. Throughout, it relies on the fundamental …

This paper addresses two issues that have only been marginally discussed in the literature
about peace operations: First, it investigates the legitimacy of peace operations from the …

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the'worst place in the world'for
women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of rape and sexual violence and …

Conceptualising state fragility and failure as a wicked problem set reveals the complex, ill-
defined and interdependent nature of the reality behind these labels. This essay builds on …