Overview

As Oliver Richmond explains, there is a level to peacemaking that operates in the realm of dialogue, declarations, symbols and rituals. But after all this pomp and circumstance is where the reality of security, development, politics, economics, identity, and culture figure in; conflict, cooperation, and reconciliation are at their most vivid at the local scale. Thus local peace operations are crucial to maintaining order on the ground even in the most violent contexts. However, as Richmond argues, such local capacity to build peace from the inside is generally left unrecognized, and it has been largely ignored in the policy and scholarly literature on peacebuilding.In Peace and Political Order, Richmond looks at peace processes as they scale up from local to transnational efforts to consider how to build a lasting and productive peace. He takes a comparative and expansive look at peace efforts in conflict situations in countries around the world to consider what local voices might suggest about the inadequacy of peace processes engineered at the international level. As well, he explores how local workers act to modify or resist peace processes headed by international NGOs, and to what degree local actors have enjoyed success in the peace process (and how they have affected the international peace process).

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Author:   Oliver P. Richmond (Research Professor in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies, Research Professor in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies, Manchester University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780190237646

ISBN 10:   0190237643
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   14 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Theorizing the Social Formation of Peace Chapter I: Peace Formation, Local Dynamics and Transversal Networks Chapter II: Four Paths for Peace Formation Part 2: Reconstructing the Empirical Evidence Chapter III: Peace Formation in Practice Chapter IV: Cases Studies in Peace Formation I: Potential and Limitations Chapter V: Case Studies in Peace Formation II: Transforming the State and Addressing the Causal Factors of the Conflict Chapter VI: Infrastructures for Peace: Negative or Positive Hybrid Peace? Conclusion Appendix A Appendix A1 Notes Bibliography Index

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When studying matters of peace and security, most of the practitioner and academic community trains its eye on states and other international actors. Richmond, though, challenges us to approach these matters from the ground up, and consider whether and how local actors are the key for understanding the transformation of conflict-ridden societies that have learned to develop a culture, practices, and institutions of nonviolent dispute resolution. A necessary corrective to standard treatments of peace and security. - Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Relations and Political Science, George Washington University Who and what is peace for? Richmond's latest powerful critique interrogates the failure of peace and peacebuilding to engage with peace movements or protect the rights of populations. His answers challenge the statist, institutionalist and neoliberal conceptions of peace, and hail the tenacious local processes in which the formation of peace, and governing legitimacy reside. - Michael Pugh, Emeritus Professor, University of Bradford, and Visiting Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen Oliver P. Richmond's remarkable study draws on a wide range of interesting empirical cases. The result is a thought-provoking and theoretically sophisticated monograph that breaks new ground in asking how an international system built by local peace actors might look. - Tarja Vayrynen, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Tampere Peace Research Institute

When studying matters of peace and security, most of the practitioner and academic community trains its eye on states and other international actors. Richmond, though, challenges us to approach these matters from the ground up, and consider whether and how local actors are the key for understanding the transformation of conflict-ridden societies that have learned to develop a culture, practices, and institutions of nonviolent dispute resolution. A necessary corrective to standard treatments of peace and security. - Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Relations and Political Science, George Washington University Who and what is peace for? Richmond's latest powerful critique interrogates the failure of peace and peacebuilding to engage with peace movements or protect the rights of populations. His answers challenge the statist, institutionalist and neoliberal conceptions of peace, and hail the tenacious local processes in which the formation of peace, and governing legitimacy reside. - Michael Pugh, Emeritus Professor, University of Bradford, and Visiting Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen Oliver P. Richmond's remarkable study draws on a wide range of interesting empirical cases. The result is a thought-provoking and theoretically sophisticated monograph that breaks new ground in asking how an international system built by local peace actors might look. - Tarja Vayrynen, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Tampere Peace Research Institute

When studying matters of peace and security, most of the practitioner and academic community trains its eye on states and other international actors. Richmond, though, challenges us to approach these matters from the ground up, and consider whether and how local actors are the key for understanding the transformation of conflict-ridden societies that have learned to develop a culture, practices, and institutions of nonviolent dispute resolution. A necessary corrective to standard treatments of peace and security. - Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Relations and Political Science, George Washington University Who and what is peace for? Richmond's latest powerful critique interrogates the failure of peace and peacebuilding to engage with peace movements or protect the rights of populations. His answers challenge the statist, institutionalist and neoliberal conceptions of peace, and hail the tenacious local processes in which the formation of peace, and governing legitimacy reside. - Michael Pugh, Emeritus Professor, University of Bradford, and Visiting Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen Oliver P. Richmond's remarkable study draws on a wide range of interesting empirical cases. The result is a thought-provoking and theoretically sophisticated monograph that breaks new ground in asking how an international system built by local peace actors might look. - Tarja Vayrynen, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Tampere Peace Research Institute When studying matters of peace and security, most of the practitioner and academic community trains its eye on states and other international actors. Richmond, though, challenges us to approach these matters from the ground up, and consider whether and how local actors are the key for understanding the transformation of conflict-ridden societies that have learned to develop a culture, practices, and institutions of nonviolent dispute resolution. A necessary corrective to standard treatments of peace and security. - Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Relations and Political Science, George Washington University Who and what is peace for? Richmond's latest powerful critique interrogates the failure of peace and peacebuilding to engage with peace movements or protect the rights of populations. His answers challenge the statist, institutionalist and neoliberal conceptions of peace, and hail the tenacious local processes in which the formation of peace, and governing legitimacy reside. - Michael Pugh, Emeritus Professor, University of Bradford, and Visiting Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen Oliver P. Richmond's remarkable study draws on a wide range of interesting empirical cases. The result is a thought-provoking and theoretically sophisticated monograph that breaks new ground in asking how an international system built by local peace actors might look. - Tarja Vayrynen, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Tampere Peace Research Institute

Author Information

Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester. He is also International Professor, College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tromso.

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