Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding

Sung Yong Lee is Lecturer at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand.Alpaslan Özerdem is Co-Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. He is author or editor of eight books, including most recently, Turkey and Human Security: Challenges of the 21st Century (Routledge, 2013).

• 1. Introduction, Alpaslan Özerdem and SungYong Lee PART I: LOCAL OWNERSHIP: Development and Challenges 2. Local Ownership as a Strategic Guideline for Peacebuilding, Hideaki Shinoda 3. Operationalizing Local Ownership, Timothy Donais 4. Complex Challenges Facing Contemporary Local Ownership Programmes: A Case Study of South Sudan, Alexander Mackenzie-Smith 5. Hybrid Local Ownership in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo: From discursive to Material Aspects of Ownership, Stefanie Kappler and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert PART II: LOCAL OWNERSHIP: PRACTICE 6. The Dilemmas of Local Ownership of Upper-level and Grassroots Peace Processes in Afghanistan, Chuck Thiessen 7. Who Owned the Reconciliation Process in Post-conflict Nicaragua?, Manuela Nilsson 8. Nurturing Local Voice: The UNDP’s Local Empowerment Programmes in Cambodia, Sung Yong Lee and WookBeom Park 9. Ownership of International Peacebuilding Programmes by Local Governance Institutions: Case Study of Gulu District in Northern Uganda, Adolf Norbert Gerstl 10. Challenges to Promoting Local Ownership in Post-war Sri Lanka, Rahmathullah Mohamed 11. Conclusion, Sung Yong Lee and Alpaslan Özerdem