02661 a2200361 4500 131540317X 20250317111620.0 250312042018GB 10 eng 9781315403175 Taylor & Francis GBP 41.99 BB 01 eng GTU thema JPWS thema JPS thema JW thema GTJ bic JPWS bic JPS bic JW bic POL034000 bisac POL035010 bisac POL011000 bisac HIS027000 bisac POL012000 bisac Landon E. Hancock Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy Interactions between National and Local Levels 1 Oxford Routledge 20180215 258 p This volume searches for pragmatic answers to the problems that continue to beset peacebuilding efforts at all levels of society, with a singular focus on the role of legitimacy. Many peacebuilding efforts are hampered by their inability to gain the support of those they are trying to help at the local level, or those at regional, national or international levels; whose support is necessary either for success at the local level or to translate local successes to wider arenas. There is no one agreed-upon reason for the difficulty in translating peacebuilding from one arena of action to another, but among those elements that have been studied, one that appears understudied or assumed to be unimportant, is the role of legitimacy. Many questions can be asked about legitimacy as a concept, and this volume addresses these questions through multiple case studies which examine legitimacy at local, regional, national and international levels, as well as looking at how legitimacy at one level either translates or fails to translate at other levels, in order to correlate the level of legitimacy with the success or failure of peacebuilding projects and programs The value of this work lies both in the breadth of the cases and the singular focus on the role of legitimacy in peacebuilding. By focusing on this concept this volume represents an attempt to build beyond the critical peacebuilding approach of deconstructing the liberal peacebuilding paradigm to a search for pragmatic answers to the problems that continue to plague peacebuilding efforts at all levels of society. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, development studies, security studies and International Relations. Christopher Mitchell B01 5696 5696