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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975138903321

Autore

Richmond Oliver P.

Titolo

A post-liberal peace / / Oliver P. Richmond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-68082-9

1-283-59027-1

9786613902726

0-203-81026-0

1-136-68083-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution

Disciplina

303.6/6

303.66

Soggetti

Conflict management

Peace-building

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; A Post-liberal Peace; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The romanticisation of the local; 1.Civil society, needs and welfare; 2.The culture of liberal peacebuilding; 3. Critical perspectives of liberal peacebuilding: Cambodia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor Leste; 4.De-romanticising the local : implications for post-liberal peacebuilding; Part II: Hybridity and the infrapolitics of peacebuilding; 5.Everyday critical agency and resistance in peacebuilding

6. De-romanticising the local, de-mystifying the international: aspects of the local-liberal hybridConclusion: The birth of a post-liberal peace; Appendix 1: HDI  and GINI  data for post-conflict countries: from settlement to the present; Appendix 2: International versus local perspectives of peacebuilding in Bosnia; Appendix 3: Universal welfare support in transitional states (very rough model); Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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