Liberal Peacebuilding and the Locus of Legitimacy

This book provides compelling empirical data showing that the people in whose name we build peace, often don't want the kind of peace we build. In place of elections and markets, the evidence suggests that the 'subjects' of peacebuilding may well prefer to prioritize roads, jobs, housing, school and other more pragmatic considerations in place of existing Liberal priorities and policies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.