Oliver Richmond
Professor
Room: 306
Office Hours
Tel: 2943
Email: opr
st-andrews.ac.uk
About
Oliver Richmond's primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its interlinkages with IR theory. He is interested in how critical approaches to international theory impact upon debates about conflict and peace, and in concepts of peace and their implicit usages in IR theory (see his book, Peace in International Relations, Routledge 2008). Recently, he has become interested in local forms of critical agency and resistance and their role in constructing hybrid or post-liberal forms of peace and states (see his new book, A Post-Liberal Peace, Routledge, 2011). His well known book, The Transformation of Peace was published in 2005/7 and was funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship. It examined the conceptualisation of peace, and in particular the construction of the 'liberal peace', in post-conflict zones. A later volume called 'Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Peacebuilding and Statebuilding' was derived from the Liberal Peace Transitions project at CPCS (2006-8) which resulted from 'Transformation of Peace'. Since his critical work on the liberal peace was first published he has become interested in hybridity, the ‘local’, resistance, and other forms of agency in peacebuilding, as well as their impact on shaping a 'post-liberal peace'.
He is currently co-directing and involved in several major research projects, funded by a range of research councils and donors. He has received several major grants, including from the Leverhulme Trust, two EUFP7 grants, an EU Marie Curie for post-doctoral support, two grants from the British Academy, as well as UNU, the Carnegie and Nuffield Trusts (for fieldwork and for further post-doctoral support). He has been involved in fieldwork in a number of countries around the world (including several parts of Asia, the South Pacific, Africa, the Balkans, and Central America, as well as within key institutions involved in post-conflict peacebuilding and development (such as the UN, World Bank, EU, major donors, etc). He has been a visiting professor at a number of universities around the world including the University of Queensland (Australia), University of Oxford (UK), University of Coimbra (Portugal), METU (Ankara), Koc University (Istanbul), University of Tuebingen (Germany), Near East University (Northern Cyprus), Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), Kyung Hee University(Korea), and PUC (Rio de Janeiro), and given talks at many more. He has advised or been consulted by a number of international donors and NGOs, universities, the Agha Khan Academies, the UK FCO and UN Association, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, radio stations such as Radio 4, the BBC World Service, a number of newspapers, including The Times, The Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal, Cyprus Mail, and the Phnom Penh Post.
He directs the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, which houses many of the projects mentioned above. This centre was the first of its kind in Scotland, and aims to stimulate and facilitate new thinking in theoretical and empirical terms in the area of peace and conflict studies. The centre's research projects, conducted by Oliver Richmond, colleagues and other members of staff, and by the centre's full time research fellows, involves theoretical and comparative fieldwork in a number of post-conflict peacebuilding sites. The centre also hosts a significant number of PhD students and a very successful MLitt programme in Peace and Conflict Studies, which he established in 2007.
Finally, he edits a Palgrave Book Series called Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, which seeks to provide a forum for the development of new and alternative approaches for understanding the dynamics of conflict and of the construction of peace. He is also an Associate Editor of the Review of International Studies.
Oliver Richmond is currently on extended research leave.
Teaching
Honours
IR3021: Case Studies in Conflict
IR4502: Conflict Management and Resolution
MLitt (Director of PCS MLitt)
IR5701: Peace and Conflict Theory
IR5702: Case Studies in Conflict/ Exemplar Case Study and Fieldwork
Books
Failed Statebuilding and the Art of Peace, Yale University Press, 2012 forthcoming
Hybrid Forms of Peace: From Everyday Agency to Post-Liberalism, (with Audra Mitchell), Palgrave, forthcoming, 2011.
A Post-Liberal Peace, Routledge, 2011.
Critical Advances in Peacebuilding (Ed.), Palgrave Macmillan: 2010
`Liberal Peacebuilding reconstructed', Special Issue of International Peacekeeping, with Roger MacGinty and Kristoffer Liden, 2010
New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding (co-edited with Edward Newman and Roland Paris), UN University Press: 2009
Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (with Jason Franks), Edinburgh University Press: 2009
Peace in IR, Routledge, 2008.
Global Communication and IR, Special Issue of Review of International Studies (co-edited with Costas Constantinou and Alison Watson): 2008.
The Liberal Peace and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (co-edited with Roger MacGinty) special issue of Global Society: 2007.
Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution (co-edited with Edward Newman), UN University Press: 2006.
The Transformation of Peace, Palgrave: 2005.
Dilemmas of NGO Peacebuilding, (co-edited with Henry C. Carey), Ashgate: 2005.
Mitigating Conflict: NGOs in Peace Processes, Special Issue of International Peacekeeping and Book (co-edited with Henry C. Carey); Frank Cass 2003.
Maintaining Order, Making Peace. Palgrave 2002.
The United Nations and Human Security: Beyond Peacekeeping, (co-edited with Edward Newman); Palgrave 2001.
The Work of the UN in Cyprus: Promoting Peace and Development, (co-edited with James KerLindsay); Palgrave 2001.
Mediating in Cyprus: The Cypriot Communities and the United Nations, Frank Cass Series on Peacekeeping, 1998.
Articles
“Towards a Post-Liberal Peace”, Forthcoming in International Political Sociology, Vol 6, No 1, 2012.
“Peacebuilding in Bosnia: Resistance or Emancipation?”, (with Stefanie Kappler). Security Dialogue, Vol. 42, No.3, 2011.
“The Emerging EU Peacebuilding Framework: Confirming or Transcending Liberal Peacebuilding?” (with Annika Björkdahl, and Stefanie Kappler). forthcoming Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2011
“Beyond Local Ownership and Participation in the Architecture of International Peacebuilding”, Ethnopolitics, forthcoming, October 2011.
“De- Romanticising the Local, Demystifying the International: Aspects of Liberal-Local Hybridity in Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands”. Pacific Review, Vol.24, No.1, 2011.
“Beyond Local Ownership and Participation in the Architecture of International Peacebuilding”, Ethnopolitics, March 2011.
“Resistance and the Post-Liberal Peace”, Millennium, Vol. 38., No.3, 2010.
“De- Romanticising the Local, Demystifying the International: Aspects of Liberal-Local Hybridity in Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands”. Pacific Review, 2010.
“Foucault and the Paradox of Peace-as-Governance versus Everyday Agency”, in Forum on “Foucault and IR”, International Political Sociology, Volume 4 Issue 2, 2010.
“Liberal Peace Transitions: A Rethink is Urgent”, Open Democracy, 2009.
'Beyond Northern Epistemologies of Peace - Peacebuilding Reconstructed?' in 'Liberal Peacebuilding reconstructed', Special Issue of International Peacekeeping, with Roger MacGinty and Kristoffer Liden, 2010.
'Liberal Peace Transitions: Towards a Post-Liberal Peace in IR?', E-IR, http://www.e-ir.info/?p=2229
'Becoming Liberal, Unbecoming Liberalism: The Everyday, Empathy, and Post-Liberal Peacebuilding', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 3, No 3, 2009.
'The Impact of Orthodox Terrorism Discourses on the Construction of the Liberal Peace: Internalisation, Resistance or Hybridisation?', (with Jason Franks), Critical Terrorism Studies, 2009.
'De facto states and international custodianship: Ethnic Sovereignty in the cases of the Bosnian 'Entities' and Kosovo' (with Rick Fawn), Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 3. No. 2, 2009.
'Eirenism and a Post-Liberal Peace' (Article for PRIO project). Review of International Studies, Vol.35, No 3, 2009.
'The Romanticisation of the Local: Welfare, Culture and Peacebuilding', International Spectator, Vol.44, No.1, 2009.
'Between Partition and Pluralism: The Bosnia Jigsaw and an 'Ambivalent Peace'' with Jason Franks, Journal of Southeast Europe and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 9, No.1, 2009.
'Reclaiming Peace in International Relations', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2008.
'The Emperors' New Clothes? Liberal Peace in East Timor', (with Jason Franks), International Peacekeeping, Vol.15, 2, 2008.
"Co-opting the Liberal Peace: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo" (with Jason Franks), Cooperation and Conflict, Vol.43, No.1, 2008.
"The Peace Differend: Experimental Eclecticism and the [Re] Development of IR", Alternatives, Vol.33, No.2, 2008.
"Emancipatory Forms of Human Security and Liberal Peacebuilding", International Journal, Summer 2007.
"Critical Research Agendas for Peace: The Missing Link in the Study of International Relations", Alternatives, Vol. 32, No.2 2007
'Liberal Hubris: Virtual Peace in Cambodia' (with Jason Franks), Security Dialogue, Vol. 38, No.1, 2007
"Spoilers in Peacebuilding", Journal of Conflict and Development (with Edward Newman), Vol. 6, No.1, 2006.
"Shared Sovereignty and the Politics of Peace: Evaluating the EU's `Catalytic' Framework in the Eastern Mediterranean", International Affairs, January 2006.
"Patterns of Peace", Global Society, 2006.
"Understanding the Liberal Peace", Conflict Security and Development, 2006.
"Human Security and the Liberal Peace: Tensions and Contradictions", Whitehead Journal of International Studies, 2006.
"The Long Mile: Narratives of Sovereignty in Cyprus", (with Costas Constantinou), Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 10, No.1., 2005.
"UN Peace Operations and the Dilemmas of the Peacebuilding Consensus", Vol.10. No.4, 2004 in International Peacekeeping, 2004.
"The Dilemmas of Conflict Resolution: A Comparison of Cyprus and Sri Lanka", Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. vol. 10, no. 2., 2004.
"The Globalisation of Approaches to Conflict", in Cooperation and Conflict, Vol.39, No.2, 2004
"Realising Hegemony? New Wars, New Terrorism, and the Roots of Conflict", Terrorism and Conflict Studies, 2003.
"Decolonisation and Post-Independence Causes of Conflict: The Case of Cyprus". Civil Wars, 2002.
"States of Sovereignty, Sovereign States, and Ethnic Claims for International Status". Review of International Studies. 2002.
"Towards a Genealogy of Peacemaking: The Creation and Recreation of Order", Alternatives, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2001.
"Rethinking Conflict Resolution: The Linkage Problematic Between 'Track I' and 'Track II", The Journal of Conflict Studies, Fall 2001.
"Emerging Concepts of Security in the Post Cold War Order: Implications For Zones of Conflict at the Fringes of The EU". European Security, Vol.9, No.1, 2000.
"No Man's-Land? Ethnic Security in the International System", Journal of International Relations and Development, No. 1, 2000.
"The Cyprus Conflict, Changing Norms of International Society, and Regional Disjunctures", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 13, No. 1 1999.
"Mediating Ethnic Conflict: A Task for Sisyphus?", Global Society, Vol. 13., No.2., 1999.
"Ethno-Nationalist Debates and International Peacemaking: The Case of Cyprus", Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Vol.5., No.2., 1999.
"Devious Objectives and the Disputants' Views of International Mediation: A Theoretical Framework", Journal of Peace Research, Olso. Vol.35, No. 6, 1998
"The Development of Negotiating Positions During the Second Phase of the United Nations' Peacemaking Operation in Cyprus, 1966-1974", Thetis, University of Mannheim, Vol.5 1999.
"Cyprus At The Crossroads", The Contemporary Review, Vol.272, No.1584, January 1998
"Drawn Into Conflict? Shaping the Dynamics of United Nations' Peacemaking in the Cyprus Conflict 1964-5", Thetis, University of Manheim, Vol.4 1997
"Turmoil in Cyprus: Another Hot Summer for the United Nations in the Eastern Mediterranean", The Contemporary Review, Vol.269., No.1570., November 1996.
"Negotiating Out of Fear and Fearing to Negotiate: Implications of the Dynamics of Peacemaking in Cyprus for Theoretical Approaches to the Ending of Conflict." The Cyprus Review, Fall 1996.
"The Conflict Researcher and The Strategist: Theoretical Approaches to the Analysis of the Cyprus Problem" (co-authored with James Ker-Lindsay) The Cyprus Review, Vol.7 No.2, Fall 1995.
"Peacekeeping and Peacemaking in Cyprus 1974-1994," The Cyprus Review, Vol.6 No.2, Fall 1994.
Book Chapters
“From Peacebuilding as Resistance to Peacebuilding as Liberation”, in Karin Aggestam and Oliver Richmond, Just and Durable Peace, ECPR Press, forthcoming, 2011.
“Post-colonial Hybridity and the Return of Human Security” in D Chandler (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Human Security, London: Routledge, 2010.
'Becoming Liberal, Unbecoming Liberalism', S Tadjbaksh, Alternatives to the Liberal Peace, New York: Palgrave, 2011.
'Conclusion: Strategic Peacebuilding Beyond the Liberal Peace', in Dan Philpott, John Paul Lederach, et al, (eds) Strategic Peacebuilding, Oxford University Press, 2010.
"The Culture of Liberal Peacebuilding and the Negation of Local Culture", in Roland Bleiker and Morgan Brigg (eds.), Mediating Across Difference: Asian/Approaches to Security and Conflict, Hawaii University Press, 2010.
"The Rule of Law and Liberal Peacebuilding", in Chandra Sriram (ed.), The Rule of law in African countries emerging from violent conflict: critical issues and cases, 2010.
"Beyond liberal peace: Why does 'backsliding occur' despite a peacebuilding consensus?", in Beyond Liberal Peacebuilding (co-edited with Edward Newman and Roland Paris), UN University Press, 2009.
"Welfare and the Civil Peace: A Missing Agenda?", in M Pugh, The Political Economy of Peacebuilding (ed.), Palgrave, 2008.
"The UN and Liberal Peacebuilding: Consensus and Challenges" in Roger MacGinty and John Darby, International Peacemaking (2nd ed.), Palgrave, 2007.
"Multilateralism and the Liberal Peace/", in D. Boutantanides, Multilateralism and Security Institutions in the Era of Globalization and Intervention, Routledge, 2007.
"The Intellectual History of Human Security", in Peou Sorpong (eds), Human Security in East Asia, Routledge, 2008.
"The Globalisation of Approaches to Conflict", in Paul James (ed.), Globalization and Violence, London: Sage, 2006.
"Spoiling and Devious Objectives in Peace Processes" in Oliver Richmond and Edward Newman, Spoilers in Peace Processes (eds.), UNU Press, 2006.
"NGOs and the Liberal Peace" in Henry C. Carey and Oliver P. Richmond (eds.), Subcontracting Peace: NGOs and Institution-Building in a Dangerous World. Ashgate, 2005.
"Colonialism, Decolonisation and Post-Independence Causes of Conflict: Mapping the Case of Cyprus." in Hubert Faustmann (ed.), Britain in Cyprus: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism 1878-2006. Peleus, 2006.
"Human Security and the War on Terror" (with Jason Franks), Felix Dodds and Tim Pippard, Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change, London: Earthscan, 2005.
"Re-Negotiating the Post-Colonial State System: The Cyprus Peace Process", Michalis S. Michael (ed.), Cyprus in the World, Vanias Press, 2005.
"UN Peace Operations and the Dilemmas of the Peacebuilding Consensus", in Alex J. Bellamy and Paul Williams, Peace Operations and Global Order, London: Frank Cass, 2004.
"The Role of NGOs in Human Rights Protection" in Christien van den Anker & Rhona Smith, Essential Guide to Human Rights, Hodder Arnold, 2004
"NGOs, Peace and Human Security", Henry Carey and Oliver P Richmond, Mitigating Conflict: The Role of NGOs, Special Issue of International Peacekeeping and Edited Volume (co-edited); Frank Cass 2003.
"The Limits of UN Multi-dimensional Peace Operations: Sovereignty and Human Security" in The United Nations and Human Security: Mediating post-Westphalian International Relations. Co-edited with Edward Newman, UN University, Tokyo, Japan, 2001.
"The Multiple Dimensions of International Peacemaking: The UN, EU, and the Case of Cyprus", in Modern Conflict, Postmodern Union: The EU and the Cyprus Conflict, Manchester University Press, 2001
"UN Mediation in Cyprus 1964-65: Setting A Precedent for Peacemaking?" in The Work of the UN in Cyprus: Promoting Peace and Development and Development. Co-edited with James Ker-Lindsay. Palgrave Publishers/ St Martin's Press, 2001
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