Download or read book Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies written by Oliver P. Richmond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International actors, including key states like the US and organizations such as the UN, EU, African Union, and World Bank, and a range of NGOs, have long been confronted with the question of how to achieve an emancipatory form of peace. This book argues that locally negotiated peace agreements offer important navigation points for policymakers, and also provide the crucial and so far often missing legitimacy for wider peacebuilding and statebuilding.