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Informationen zum Autor Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester. Klappentext 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). Zusammenfassung International actors, including key states like the US and organizations such as the UN, EU, African Union, and World Bank, and a range of NGOs, have long been confronted with the question of how to achieve an emancipatory form of peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
