Exploring Peace Formation
Subtitle: Security and Justice in Post-Colonial States
By: editors, Kwesi Aning, M. Anne Brown, Volker Boege, Charles T. Hunt
Edition: First edition.
Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781315658377
Subjects: Peace; Study and teaching; War; National security; World politics
Description: "This volume examines the dynamics of socio-political order in post-colonial states across the Pacific Islands region and West Africa in order to elaborate on the processes and practices of peace formation. Drawing on field research and engaging with post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuilding, this book investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and justice in post-colonial states. The chapters analyse how different types of actors and institutions involved in peace formation engage in and are interpenetrated by a host of relations in the local arena, making the local contested ground on which different discourses and praxes of peace, security and justice co-exist and overlap. In the course of interactions, new and different forms of socio-political order emerge which are far from being captured through the familiar notions of a liberal peace and a Weberian ideal-type state. Rather, this volume investigates how (dis)order emerges as a result of interdependence among agents, thus laying open the fundamentally relational character of peace formation. This innovative relational, liminal and integrative understanding of peace formation has far-reaching consequences for internationally supported peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peace studies, security studies, governance, development and IR."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Concepts and thematic treatments --; title: chapter 1 Introduction --; title: Seeking peace in West Africa and the Pacific Island region -- new directions  -- M Anne Brown Kwesi Aning; title: chapter 2 Challenging conventional understandings of statehood --; title: West African realities  -- Kwesi Aning Festus Aubyn; title: chapter 3 Working with 'illiberal' sources of peace and order --; title: Talking about human rights  -- M Anne Brown; title: chapter 4 What to do with informal security and justice --; title: The dilemma for African states  -- Bruce Baker; title: chapter 5 Relational perspectives on peace formation --; title: Symbiosis and the provision of security and justice*  -- Charles T Hunt; title: chapter 6 Gender and hybridity --; title: Exploring the contributions of women in hybrid political orders in West Africa  -- Nancy Annan; title: part, II Case studies in West Africa and Oceania --; title: chapter 7 Hybridity and expressions of power, legitimacy, justice and security provision in Ghana  -- Kwesi Aning Nancy Annan Fiifi Edu-Afful; title: chapter 8 Understanding and explaining hybridity in Liberia  -- Thomas Jaye; title: chapter 9 How hybridity happens --; title: Unpacking plural security and justice provision in Sierra Leone  -- Lisa Denney; title: chapter 10 The international-local interface in peacebuilding --; title: The case of Bougainville  -- Volker Boege; title: chapter 11 Customary conflict resolution in a state environment --; title: Cases from Vanuatu  -- Volker Boege Miranda Forsyth; title: chapter 12 The hybridisation of peace, security and justice --; title: Cases from West Africa and Oceania  -- Volker Boege; title: chapter 13 Peace formation in heterogeneous states --; title: Concluding thoughts -- M Anne Brown Kwesi Aning.