Publication

2018 - Taylor and Francis, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

63,500 words, Guess

Page Count

254 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC303.6/60966
  • LCCJZ5584.A358

Description

"This volume examines the dynamics of socio-political order in post-colonial states across the Pacific Islands region and West Africa in order to elaborate on the processes and practices of peace formation. Drawing on field research and engaging with post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuilding, this book investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and justice in post-colonial states. The chapters analyse how different types of actors and institutions involved in peace formation engage in and are interpenetrated by a host of relations in the local arena, making the local contested ground on which different discourses and praxes of peace, security and justice co-exist and overlap. In the course of interactions, new and different forms of socio-political order emerge which are far from being captured through the familiar notions of a liberal peace and a Weberian ideal-type state. Rather, this volume investigates how (dis)order emerges as a result of interdependence among agents, thus laying open the fundamentally relational character of peace formation. This innovative relational, liminal and integrative understanding of peace formation has far-reaching consequences for internationally supported peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peace studies, security studies, governance, development and IR."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

Links

Other Editions

  • Exploring Peace FormationTaylor and Francis2018

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