Title: The Transformation of Peace
Subtitle: Peace as Governance in Contemporary Conflict Endings (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
First published: 2005
Description: "What is peace and how should it be defined? In this timely and compelling study, Oliver Richmond traces the discourses of peace from philosophical and theoretical debates in international relations to the politics and practices of an 'epistemic' community of peacebuilding actors operating in conflict zones. In a radical critique of the dominant paradigm of peace, he examines its components and its short-comings in the context of a variety of post-Cold War peace operations and associated peace-building projects, which have involved the importation of expertise into conflict zones."--Jacket.
Subjects: Peaceful change (International relations), Peace-building, Democracy, International relations, Peacekeeping operations, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Peace, United Nations & UN agencies, Warfare and Defence, Warfare, battles, armed forces (Children's/YA)
LC classification: JZ5538 .R535 2005