This edited volume focuses on disentangling the interplay of local peacebuilding processes and international policy, via comparative theoretical and empirical w

When powerful states and international organizations decide to respond to violent conflict around the world, their preferred policy instrument is to deploy peac

Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory. There is now a growing awareness of the signifi

This book examines local ownership in UN peacekeeping and how national and international actors interact and share responsibility in fragile post-conflict conte

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set a