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Section 1. Theorising Hybridity. The 'Hybrid Turn': Approaches and Potentials / M. Anne Brown; Power, Politics and Hybridity / Paul Jackson and Peter Albrecht; Hybridity Revisited: Relational Approaches to Peacebuilding in Complex Sociopolitical Orders / Charles T. Hunt; Should the Concept of Hybridity Be Used Normatively as well as Descriptively? / Miranda Forsyth; Is There Still a Place for Liberal Peacebuilding? / Joanne Wallis; Against Hybridity in the Study of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding / Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones -- Section 2. Hybridity and Peacebuilding. Hybridisation of Peacebuilding at the Local-International Interface: The Bougainville Case / Volker Boege; Reflections on Hybridity as an Analytical Lens on State Formation: The Case of Solomon Islands / Sinclair Dinnen and Matthew Allen; Engaging with 'The Everyday': Towards a More Dynamic Conception of Hybrid Transitional Justice / Lia Kent; Post-hybridity Bargaining and Embodied Accountability in Communities in Conflict, Mozambique / Victor Igreja; Hybrid Peacebuilding in Hybrid Communities: A Case Study of East Timor / James Scambary and Todd Wassel -- Section 3. Hybridity, Security and Politics. Hybrid Peace/War / Gavin Mount; (In)Security and Hybrid Justice Systems in Mindanao, Philippines / Imelda Deinla; Section 4. Hybridity and Gender. Inside and Out: Violence against Women and Spatiality in Timor-Leste / Damian Grenfell; Hybridity and Regulatory Authority in Fiji: Vernacular Perspectives on Gender and Security / Nicole George; Hybridity in Port Moresby: Gender, Class and a 'Tiny Bit of Feminism' in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea / Ceridwen Spark.

"Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development engages with the possibilities and pitfalls of the increasingly popular notion of hybridity. The hybridity concept has been embraced by scholars and practitioners in response to the social and institutional complexities of peacebuilding and development practice. In particular, the concept appears well-suited to making sense of the mutually constitutive outcomes of processes of interaction between diverse norms, institutions, actors and discourses in the context of contemporary peacebuilding and development engagements. At the same time, it has been criticised from a variety of perspectives for overlooking critical questions of history, power and scale. The authors in this interdisciplinary collection draw on their in‑depth knowledge of peacebuilding and development contexts in different parts of Asia, the Pacific and Africa to examine the messy and dynamic realities of hybridity 'on the ground'. By critically exploring the power dynamics, and the diverse actors, ideas, practices and sites that shape hybrid peacebuilding and development across time and space, this book offers fresh insights to hybridity debates that will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners. 'Hybridity has become an influential idea in peacebuilding and this volume will undoubtedly become the most influential collection on the idea. Nuance and sophistication characterises this engagement with hybridity.'
— Professor John Braithwaite"