The Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies presents Professor Oliver Richmond (Manchester University) -- The Post Liberal Peace

Oliver Richmond's primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its inter-linkages with IR theory. He is currently working on a book entitled Peace in the 21st Century (OUP forthcoming 2018). This study examines the evolution of the different strategies for maintaining international order in contemporary history and engages with new questions about peace and war raised in the digital era. His previous work was on peace formation and its relation to state formation, statebuilding, and peacebuilding (Failed Statebuilding and Peace Formation, Yale University Press 2014 & Peace Formation and Political Order, Oxford University Press, 2016).

This area of interest grew out of his work on local forms of critical agency and resistance, and their role in constructing hybrid or post-liberal forms of peace and states (see A Post-Liberal Peace, Routledge, 2011), as well as earlier conflict resolution and conflict management debates in IR, including international mediation, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and state formation debates. He also published a Very Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press, 2014), which offers an overview of the development of related concepts, theory and practices.

This event will take place in the Arts Lecture Theatre.