The Oxford handbook of peacebuilding statebuilding and peace formation The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding Statebuilding and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding statebuilding and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars the Handbook provides a timely engaging and critical overview of conceptual foundations political implications and tensions at the global regional and local levels. It examines the key policies practices examples and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding statebuilding and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections the Handbook offers a state of the art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities