Local Legitimacy and International Peacebuilding

Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute & Department of Politics, University of Manchester. His recent publications include Peace in IR (Routledge, 2008), Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution (co-edited with Edward Newman) (UNU Press, 2006), and The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave, 2005). Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University and Director of the Durham Security Institute.

• Introduction: Legitimacy and Peace in the Age of InterventionOliver P. Richmond & Roger Mac GintyThe Hybridisation of Legitimacy in Processes of Peace Formation: the Bougainville CaseVolker Boege & James TanisInternational Intervention and Relational LegitimacyGëzim VisokaFrom a Divisive Peace Agreement to a Legitimate Peace in ColombiaBorja Paladini AdellBanners, Billy Clubs and Boomerangs. Leveraging and Counter-Leveraging Legitimacy in the Occupied Palestinian TerritoryToufic HaddadPeacebuilding as a Self-Legitimising System: The Case of Bosnia-HerzegovinaStefanie Kappler'We Are There at Their Invitation': Struggles for Legitimacy During the US-Coalition Invasion-Occupation of IraqFlorian ZollmannInclusion and Performance as Sources of Legitimacy – the UN Mediation on SyriaSara HellmüllerAgonisation and the Re-legitimatisation of Postcolonial, Post-Conflict SomalilandYoshito NakagawaThird Party Legitimacy and International Mediation: Peacemaking through Pan-Africanism in SudanAllard DuursmaPost-war Legitimacy: A Framework on Relational Agency in PeacebuildingFlorian Krampe & Lisa EkmanLegitimacy in LebanonKristina Tschunkert & Roger Mac GintyConclusion: Peacebuilding and Legitimacy – Some Concluding ThoughtsOliver Richmond & Roger Mac GintyAfterwordMarco Donati