This volume searches for pragmatic answers to the problems that continue to hamper peacebuilding efforts at all levels of society, with a singular focus on the role of legitimacy in peacebuilding.

Landon Hancock is Associate Professor in the School of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University, USA.

Christopher Mitchell is Professor Emeritus of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a Fellow of the Center for Peacemaking Practice at George Mason University, Virginia USA.

1. By What Right? Competing Sources of Legitimacy in Intractable Conflicts.
Christopher Mitchell. 2. Legitimate Agents of Peacebuilding: Deliberative Governance in Zones of Peace Landon E. Hancock. 3. Between Shadow Citizenship and Civil Resistance: Shifting Local Orders in a Colombian War-Torn Community. Annette Idler, Cécile Mouly and Maria Belén Garrido. 4. Civilian Noncooperation as a Source of Legitimacy: Innovative Youth Reactions in the Face of Local Violence. Juan Masullo. 5. External Peacebuilders and the Search for Legitimacy: The Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Kashmir. Rajit H. Das. 6. Legitimacy, International Accompaniment, and Land Reform in Colombia. Catherine Ammen and Christopher Mitchell. 7. Harnessing Legitimacy through Networks: Civilian-Led, Closed Virtual Communities as a New Type of Zone of Peace. Laura Villanueva. 8. Targets of Violence, Zones of Peace: The Child and School as Post-Conflict Spaces. Patricia A. Maulden. 9. Peace as a Tool of War: Non-State Armed Actors and Humanitarian Agreements. Sweta Sen. 10. Twisted Legitimacy? Leadership, Representation and Status in Traditional and Fragile Societies
Jacqueline Wilson. 11. Hybrid Sources of Legitimacy: Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Somaliland. Mary Hope Schwoebel. 12. Legitimacy, Peace and Peacebuilding
Landon E. Hancock and Christopher Mitchell