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1. The Liberal Peace and Post-War Reconstruction

   Myth or reality?

   Edited by Roger MacGinty, Oliver Richmond

   The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war. These western-led interventions are often called ‘liberal peacebuilding’ or ‘liberal interventionism’, or statebuilding, and have attracted...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Liberal Peace and Post-War Reconstruction

   Myth or reality?

   Edited by Roger MacGinty, Oliver Richmond

   The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war. These western-led interventions are often called ‘liberal peacebuilding’ or ‘liberal interventionism’, or statebuilding, and have attracted...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. A Post-Liberal Peace

   By Oliver Richmond

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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 according to their own local requirements. Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. Peace in International Relations

   By Oliver Richmond

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, and in the policy world as exemplified through practices in...

   Published May 7th 2008 by Routledge
5. Mitigating Conflict

   The Role of NGOs

   By Henry F. Carey, Oliver P. Richmond

   This title examines the roles and new opportunities arising from the increasing participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in peace-making, peacekeeping and peace-building processes, both formal and informal, state-sponsored and unofficial. Drawing on both academic experts and activists...

   Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge
6. Mediating in Cyprus

   The Cypriot Communities and the United Nations

   By Oliver P. Richmond

   The UN peacemaking operation in Cyprus has been one of the longest of its kind, but has resulted in discarded proposals, non-papers or reports. This study investigates the Cypriot parties' views of peacemaking, to shed light on the problem, and on the theoretical debates surrounding mediation....

   Published September 29th 1998 by Routledge