1st Edition

Liberal Peacebuilding and the Locus of Legitimacy

Edited By David Roberts Copyright 2015
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people aren’t rejecting and relegating democracy because it’s bad; they’re challenging it because it isn’t relevant to their priorities and needs. The peacebuilding ‘moment’ – when consent for intervention is present and the opportunity to build a sustainable social contract between peacebuilders... Read more

1. Everyday Legitimacy and Postconflict States: Introduction David Roberts

2. Everyday Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Spaces: The Creation of Social Legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Cultural Arenas Stefanie Kappler

3. Health, Conflict, Stability and Statebuilding: A House Built on Sand? Stuart Gordon

4. An Empirical Approach to Post-conflict Legitimacy: Victims’ Needs and the Everyday Simon Robins

5. Surveying South Sudan: The Liberal, the Local and the Legitimate David Roberts

6. Everyday Legitimacy and International Administration: Global Governance and Local Legitimacy in Kosovo Nicolas Lemay-Hébert

Biography

David Roberts is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of four books on positive peace and numerous articles on peacebuilding, human security and Cambodia.