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 and
distant processes often appear to represent power rather than
humanitarianism or emancipation. Yet, the liberal peace also offers
a civil peace and emancipation. These tensions enable a range of
hitherto little understood local and contextual peacebuilding
agencies to emerge, which renegotiate both the local context and
the liberal peace framework, leading to a local-liberal hybrid form
of peace. This might be called a post-liberal peace. Such processes
are examined in this book in a range of different cases of
peacebuilding and statebuilding since the end of the Cold War.
This book will be of interest to students of peacebuilding,
peacekeeping, peace and conflict studies, international
organisations and IR/Security Studies.
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