TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Failed statebuilding versus peace formation
JO  - Cooperation and conflict
A1  - Richmond, Oliver P.
SP  - 378
EP  - 400
VL  - 48
IS  - 3
N2  - This article outlines the often countervailing forces and norms of state formation, statebuilding and peacebuilding according to their associated theoretical approaches. It introduces a new concept of 'peace formation', which counterbalances a reliance on internal violent or externalised institutions' agency, reform and conditionality. Without incorporating a better understanding of the multiple and often critical agencies involved in peace formation, the states emerging from statebuilding will remain as they are: failed by design. This is because they are founded on externalised systems, legitimacy and norms rather than a contextual, critical and emancipatory epistemology of peace. Engaging with the processes of peace formation may aid international actors in gaining a better understanding of the roots of a conflict, how local actors may be assisted, how violence and power-seeking may be ended or managed and how local legitimacy may emerge.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0010-8367
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836713482816
ID  - ref1
ER  -