Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-Colonial States

ISBN-13: 9781138999367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

Kwesi Aning; M. Anne Brown; Volker Boege

Opis

This volume investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and justice in volatile environments. It aims to take current debates about peacebuilding and statebuilding, the formation of political community, and the foundations of security and social order in conflict-affected or fragile environments further and deeper, by drawing on field research from West Africa and Oceania, but also through theoretical critique and engagement. The key debates in peacebuilding and statebuilding relate to concepts, practices and critiques of the 'liberal peace'. The combination, explored in this volume, of studies of people's efforts to construct social order or secure themselves, and engagement with ideas of the 'liberal peace' and some of its prominent critiques - particularly 'hybridity' and 'the local' - provide a basis for deepening understanding of and insight relevant to working with questions of peace, security and justice in fragile environments. While not a comparative study, by drawing on empirical cases from geographically distinct regions, the discussion enables a focus on shared themes while respecting and exploring contextual specificity. Moreover, by presenting cases from both Africa and Oceania, the chapters counter the view of Africa as both generic and unique, or peculiarly generative of disorder and irrationality. This volume makes a fresh contribution to one of the most important debates in peace and conflict studies to date. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, statebuilding, peace studies, security studies and IR.

Spis treści

Part I: Concepts and Thematic Treatments  1. Introduction: Seeking Peace in West Africa and Oceania – New Directions, M. Anne Brown and Kwesi Aning  2. Challenging Conventional Understandings of Statehood: West African Realities, Kwesi Aning and Festus Aubyn  3. Working with ‘Illiberal’ Sources of Peace and Order – Talking About Human Rights, M. Anne Brown  4. What to Do with Informal Security and Justice: The Dilemma for African States, Bruce Baker  5.Relational Perspectives on Peace Formation: Symbiosis and the Provision of Security and Justice. Charles T. Hunt  6.Gender and Hybridity: Exploring the Contributions of Women in Hybrid Political Orders in West Africa, Nancy Annan  Part II: Case Studies in West Africa and Oceania  7. Hybridity and Expressions of Power, Legitimacy, Justice and Security Provision in Ghana, Kwesi Aning, Nancy Annan and Fiifi Edu-Afful  8. Understanding and Explaining Hybridity in Liberia, Thomas Jaye  9. How Hybridity Happens: Unpacking Plural Security and Justice Provision in Sierra Leone, Lisa Denney  10. The International-Local Interface in Peacebuilding: The Case of Bougainville, Volker Boege  11. Customary Conflict Resolution in a State Environment: Cases from Vanuatu, Volker Boege and Miranda Forsyth  12. The Hybridisation of Peace, Security and Justice: Cases from West Africa and Oceania, Volker Boege  13. Peace Formation in Heterogeneous States: Concluding Thoughts, M. Anne Brown and Kwesi Aning