Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-colonial States
β Scribed by Kwesi Aning, Volker Boege, M Anne Brown, Charles T Hunt
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 255
- Series
- Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half title
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I: Concepts and thematic treatments
1 Introduction: seeking peace in West Africa and the Pacific Island region β new directions
2 Challenging conventional understandings of statehood: West African realities
3 Working with 'illiberal' sources of peace and order: talking about human rights
4 What to do with informal security and justice: the dilemma for African states
5 Relational perspectives on peace formation: symbiosis and the provision of security and justice
6 Gender and hybridity: exploring the contributions of women in hybrid political orders in West Africa
PART II: Case studies in West Africa and Oceania
7 Hybridity and expressions of power, legitimacy, justice and security provision in Ghana
8 Understanding and explaining hybridity in Liberia
9 How hybridity happens: unpacking plural security and justice provision in Sierra Leone
10 The international-local interface in peacebuilding: the case of Bougainville
11 Customary conflict resolution in a state environment: cases from Vanuatu
12 The hybridisation of peace, security and justice: cases from West Africa and Oceania
13 Peace formation in heterogeneous states: concluding thoughts
Index
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