| ID | 123262 |
| Title Proper | Failed statebuilding versus peace formation |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Richmond, Oliver P |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article outlines the often countervailing forces and norms of state formation, statebuilding and peacebuilding according to their associated theoretical approaches. It introduces a new concept of 'peace formation', which counterbalances a reliance on internal violent or externalised institutions' agency, reform and conditionality. Without incorporating a better understanding of the multiple and often critical agencies involved in peace formation, the states emerging from statebuilding will remain as they are: failed by design. This is because they are founded on externalised systems, legitimacy and norms rather than a contextual, critical and emancipatory epistemology of peace. Engaging with the processes of peace formation may aid international actors in gaining a better understanding of the roots of a conflict, how local actors may be assisted, how violence and power-seeking may be ended or managed and how local legitimacy may emerge. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 48, No.3; Sep 2013: p.378-400 |
| Journal Source | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 48, No.3; Sep 2013: p.378-400 |
| Key Words | Liberal Peacebuilding ; Peace Formation ; Statebuilding ; State Formation |