Practicing Post-Liberal Peacebuilding: Legal Empowerment and Emergent Hybridity in Liberia

ISBN-13: 9781137491039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 208 str.

Julian Graef

Opis

Practicing Post-Liberal Peacebuilding engages with one of the central debates in Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations. The book's innovation lies in the introduction and application of 'practice theory' to develop a critical methodology for mapping the everyday practices of post-liberal hybridity in Liberia.

Spis treści

Introduction
PART I: A PRACTICE-BASED THEORY OF PEACEBUILDING
1. A Genealogy of Hybridity in Peace and Conflict Studies
2. A Post-Liberal Ontology of Peacebuilding Practice
3. The Politics of Post-liberal Peacebuilding Practice
4. Mapping Peacebuilding Practice: a Post-Liberal Methodology
PART II: MAPPING PEACEBUILDING PRACTICE IN LIBERIA
5. Practicing Justice in Liberia: a Brief History
6. Translating Statutory Justice into Legal Empowerment
7. Translating Legal Empowerment into Liberian Communities
8. Translating Legal Empowerment into a Randomized Controlled Trial
9. Translating Legal Empowerment into Political Impact
Conclusion

O autorze

J. Julian Graef holds a PhD from the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His research interests include peacebuilding and conflict resolution. He also specialises in African politics, and has coordinated fieldwork in Liberia on numerous occasions.