This book looks at the local agency related to peace formation in order to find answers to the pressing question of how large-scale peacebuilding or statebuilding may be significantly improved and made more representative of the lives, needs, rights, and ambitions of its subjects.

Introduction: The contradictions of peace, international architecture, the state, and local agency, Oliver P. Richmond & Sandra Pogodda; Chapter 1 Lock out: Peace formation in Northern Ireland, Roger Mac Ginty; Chapter 2 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Domestic Agency and the Inadequacy of the Liberal Peace, Jasmin Ramovic, Stefanie Kappler & Roberto Belloni; Chapter 3, Peace Multitudes: Liberal Peace, Local Agency, and Peace Formation in Kosovo, Gezim Visoka; Chapter 4 Engendering the Post-liberal Peace in Cyprus: UNSC Resolution 1325 as a Tool, Olga Demetriou & Maria Hadjipavlou; Chapter 5 Peace formation versus everyday state formation in Palestine, Sandra Pogodda & Oliver P Richmond; Chapter 6 Afghanistan’s Post-Liberal Peace: between external intervention and local efforts, Martine van Bijlert;Chapter 7 International interventions and local agency in peacebuilding in Sierra Leone, Morten Bøås & Patrick Tom; Chapter 8 Local Spaces for Peace in Cambodia?, Eng Netra and Caroline Hughes; Chapter 9 Timor-Leste: Building on local governance structures: embedding UN peace efforts from within, Paula Duarte Lopes; Chapter 10 Incompatibility, substitution or complementarity? Interrogating relationships between international, state and non-state peace agents in post-conflict Solomon Islands, Volker Boege

Comparative case studies, based on wide-ranging fieldwork, look at Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cyprus, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Israel-Palestine, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone and the Solomon Islands