What is it about?
This book explores hybrid peacebuilding in Asia, focusing on local intermediaries bridging the gaps between incumbent governments and insurgents, national leadership and the grassroots constituency, and local stakeholders and international intervenors. The contributors shed light on the functions of rebel gatekeepers in Bangsamoro, the Philippines, and Buddhist Peace monks in Cambodia to illustrate the mechanism of dialogue platforms through which gaps are filled and the nature of hybrid peace is negotiated. The book also discusses the dangers of hybrid peacebuilding by examining the cases of India and Indonesia where national level illiberal peace was achieved at the expense of welfare of minority groups. They suggest a possible role of outsiders in hybrid peacebuilding and mutually beneficial partnership between them and local intermediaries.
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Why is it important?
It fills the existing knowledge gap in the literature on the special features of peacebuilding practices in Asia, links the concept of democratization to the concept of "hybrid peacebuilding", and presents a narrative of hybrid peacebuilding in Asia undertaken by an "illiberal" state and divorced from the state-building endeavor.
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In this edited volume, I was in charge of writing the Introduction. I also co-authored with Kevin P. Clements (Conclusion) and Megumi Kagawa (Chapter 3). The Chapter 3 develops a typology of mis-space local bridge-builders which serves as a key concept used in the empirical chapters of this edited volume.
Yuji Uesugi
Waseda University
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This page is a summary of: Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18865-8.
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