This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment
has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it …

The concept of state fragility that has gained prominence within the development and
security agenda focuses very much on deficiencies and shortcomings of governance in so …

Puts forth the claim that conflict transformation and peacebuilding need to be of a hybrid
nature and combine traditional, state-and civil society-centred approaches in order to be …

Hybrid forms of peace represent a juxtaposition between international norms and interests
and local forms of agency and identity. A first stage may be tense forms of hybrid politics that …

Timor-Leste's long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a
short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book …

The quality of the peace arrived at via liberal peacebuilding approaches has been poor. The
related statebuilding praxis has generally been unable to respond to its critics. What is at …

This study explores current processes of state formation in the Pacific islands, focusing on
Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Bougainville (as an autonomous region of Papua New …

Nation-building and the tasks of encouraging a sense of national identity and political
community pose an immense challenge in Papua New Guinea (PNG). With over 830 …

Pacific Island countries have among the lowest access to improved drinking water sources
and sanitation services in the world. Due to geography, climate, the high frequency, and …

This book explains how security is organized from the local to the national level in post-war
Sierra Leone, and how external actors attempted to shape the field through security sector …