Local Peacebuilding and National Peace Interaction Between Grassroots and Elite Processes

Local Peacebuilding and National Peace is a collection of essays that examines the effects of local peacebuilding efforts on national peace initiatives. The book looks at violent and protracted struggles in which local people have sought to make their own peace with local combatants in a variety of ways, and how such initiatives have affected and have been affected by national level strategies.Chapters on theories of local and national peacemaking are combined with chapters on recent efforts to carry out such processes in warn torn societies such as Africa, Asia, and South America, with essays contributed by experts who were actually actively involved in the peacemaking process.With its unique focus on the interaction of peacemaking at local and national levels, the book will fill a gap in the literature. It will be of interest to students and researchers in such fields as peace studies, conflict resolution, international relations, postwar recovery and development.

ContributorsPreface1. Introduction: Linking National-Level Peacemaking with Grassroots PeacebuildingChristopher Mitchell2. A ZoPs Approach to Conflict Prevention    Wallace Warfield and Yves-Reneé Jennings3. Against the Stream: Colombian Zones of Peace under Democratic SecurityChristopher Mitchell and Catalina Rojas4. Colombia: From Grassroots to Elites: How Some Local Peacebuilding Initiatives Became National in Spite of ThemselvesMery Rodriguez5. South Africa's Infrastructure for Peace    Andries Odendaal6. Belfast's Interfaces, Zones of Conflict or Zones of PeaceLandon E. Hancock7. Zones of Peace in the South Caucasus: Polyphonic Approaches to State-BuildingIrakli Zurab Kakabadze8. Between Local and National Peace: Complementarity or Conflict?Landon E. Hancock and Christopher Mitchell