Publication

Does the liberal peace critique still constitute an undiscovered message in a bottle or does it represent the proverbial elephant in the room when peacebuilding practitioners go about their daily work? This paper will proceed in three parts. First, some of the main arguments of the liberal peace critique literature will be presented. This presentation will be structured around the headings of values, context and hybridity, thus reflecting three central messages of this body of literature. Then, current practices of developing IPBSs will be viewed in light of the arguments presented, before the implications for future IPBS development are discussed.