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Furthering the understanding of the legitimate authority in internationally-led peace-and state-building interventions
This edited volume focuses on disentangling the interplay of local peacebuilding processes and international policy, via comparative theoretical and empirical work on the question of legitimacy and authority. Using a number of conflict-affected regions as case studies - including Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sudan - the book incorporates the expertise of a range of international scholars in order to understand the dynamics of local peacebuilding, the construction of legitimate authority, and its interplay with internationally led peace- and state-building interventions. The commissioned chapters advance our understanding of local legitimacy, sustainable international engagement, and the hybrid forms of authority they produce.
Oliver Richmond is a Research Professor in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. He is also International Professor, College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea and a Visiting Professor at Dublin City University.
Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, as well as Director of the Durham Security Institute.
List of contents
Introduction: Legitimacy and Peace in the Age of Intervention, Oliver P. Richmond & Roger Mac Ginty; Chapter 1: The Hybridization of Legitimacy in Processes of Peace Formation: the Bougainville Case, Volker Boege & James Tanis; Chapter 2: International Intervention and Relational Legitimacy, Gëzim Visoka; Chapter 3: From a Divisive Peace Agreement to a Legitimate Peace in Colombia, Borja Paladini Adell; Chapter 4: Banners, Billy Clubs and Boomerangs: Leveraging and Counter-Leveraging Legitimacy in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Toufic Haddad; Chapter 5: Peacebuilding as a Self-Legitimising System: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Stefanie Kappler; Chapter 6: "We Are There at Their Invitation": Struggles for Legitimacy During the US-Coalition Invasion-Occupation of Iraq, Florian Zollmann; Chapter 7: Inclusion and Performance as Sources of Legitimacy - the UN Mediation on Syria, Sara Hellmüller; Chapter 8: Agonisation and the Re-legitimatisation of Postcolonial, Post-Conflict Somaliland, Yoshito Nakagawa; Chapter 9: Third Party Legitimacy and International Mediation: Peacemaking through Pan-Africanism in Sudan, Allard Duursma; Chapter 10: Post-war Legitimacy: A Framework on Relational Agency in Peacebuilding, Florian Krampe & Lisa Ekman; Chapter 11 Legitimacy in Lebanon, Kristina Tschunkert & Roger Mac Ginty; Conclusion: Peacebuilding and Legitimacy: Some Concluding Thoughts; Oliver Richmond & Roger Mac Ginty; Afterword; Marco Donati.
About the author
Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute & Department of Politics, University of Manchester. His recent publications include Peace in IR (Routledge, 2008), Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution (co-edited with Edward Newman) (UNU Press, 2006), and The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave, 2005).Durham University; Durham Security Institute.Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, as well as Director of the Durham Security Institute.
