Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why?
Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people …

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 …

With humanitarian disaster management as its background, this article takes a critical look at
some recent changes in the nature of security governance; especially, the withdrawal from …

Corruption has turned out to be difficult to define and what should be counted as the
opposite to corruption remains widely disputed. If the goal for a post-conflict society is not …

This article explores how the 'liberal democratic peace package'is received in post-conflict
spaces. As such, it is part of a critical peace research agenda that raises critical questions …

Critical Peace and Conflict Studies scholars have increasingly sought to overcome binary
approaches to engage more fully the ways in which peacebuilding missions are designed …

The peacebuilding and academic communities are divided over the issue of local ownership
between problem-solvers who believe that local ownership can 'save liberal …

The literature on contemporary peacebuilding is increasingly being framed by the liberal
peace debate. Sometimes labelled 'liberal interventionism'1 or 'liberal internationalism', 2 …

This book examines the logic behind the shifts and paradigm changes within the scholarship
on peacebuilding. In particular, the book is concerned with examining if, and how, these …

Political sociology is key to understanding current debates on statebuilding. One's
conception of what to rebuild–the state–will necessarily impact the actual process of …