Peacebuilding and friction: global and local encounters in post-conflict societies
In: Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution
Introduction: Peacebuilding through the lens of friction, Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren . - 1. Frictional spaces: Transitional justice between the global and the local, Susanne Buckley Zistel . - 2. Respecting complexity: Compound friction and unpredictability in peacebuilding, Gearoid Millar . - 3. Frictional commemoration. Local agency and cosmopolitan politics at memorial sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic . - 4. Escaping Friction: Practices of creating non-frictional space in Sierra Leone, Lise Philipsen . - 5. Sites of Friction: Governance, identity and space in Mostar, Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic . - 6. The imagined agent of peace: Frictions in peacebuilding through civil society strengthening, Willemijn Verkoren and Mathijs van Leeuwen . - 7. Friction over justice in post-war Sri Lanka: Actors in local-global encounters, Kristine Höglund and Camilla Orujela . - 8. The 'awkward' success of peacebuilding in Cambodia - creative and incomplete, unsustainable yet resilient, progressing but stalling, Joakim Öjendal and Sivhuoch Ou . - 9. Frictions in illusionstan: Engagement between the 'global' and the 'local' in Afghanistan's imagi-nation-building, Jair Van der Lijn . - 10. Connections for peace: Frictions in peacebuilding encounters in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sara Hellmuller . - 11. Problematising global-local dynamics in Timor-Leste, Maria Raquel Freire and Paula Duarte Lopes . - Conclusions: Peacebuilding and the significance of friction, Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren