Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia / Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia (PDF)

"...A pioneering and innovative effort to integrate a variety of practical approaches to peacebuilding from different cultures while providing useful guidelines for practitioners."
-Christopher Mitchell, Emeritus Professor of Conflict Research, School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution, George Mason University, USA

"This study is an innovative and important addition to the growing literature on hybrid peace."

-Oliver Richmond, Associate Dean for Internationalisation, Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Manchester, UK

"This work is a serious examination of how peacebuilding is enacted in Asian contexts, able to add to theory and concept-building on what we know about peace."

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.