International actors, including key states like the US and organizations such as the UN, EU, African Union, and World Bank, and a range of NGOs, have long been confronted with the question of how to achieve an emancipatory form of peace.

• Introduction


• Part 1: Theorizing the Social Formation of Peace


• Chapter I: Peace Formation, Local Dynamics and Transversal Networks


• Chapter II: Four Paths for Peace Formation


• Part 2: Reconstructing the Empirical Evidence


• Chapter III: Peace Formation in Practice


• Chapter IV: Cases Studies in Peace Formation I: Potential and Limitations


• Chapter V: Case Studies in Peace Formation II: Transforming the State and Addressing the Causal Factors of the Conflict


• Chapter VI: Infrastructures for Peace: Negative or Positive Hybrid Peace?


• Conclusion


• Appendix A


• Appendix A1


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester.