Exploring peace formation : security and justice in post-colonial states / edited by Kwesi Aning, Volker Boege, M. Anne Brown and Charles T. Hunt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : seeking peace in West Africa and Oceania : new directions / M. Anne Brown and Kwesi Aning -- Challenging conventional understandings of statehood : West African realities / Kwesi Aning and Festus Aubyn -- Working with "illiberal" sources of peace and order : talking about human rights / M. Anne Brown -- What to do with informal security and justice: the dilemma for African states / Bruce Baker -- Relational perspectives on peace formation : symbiosis and the provision of security and justice / Charles T. Hunt -- Gender and hybridity : exploring the contributions of women in hybrid political orders in West Africa / Nancy Annan -- Hybridity and expressions of power, legitimacy, justice and security provision in Ghana / Kwesi Aning, Nancy Annan and Fiifi Edu-Afful -- Understanding and explaining hybridity in Liberia / Thomas Jaye -- How hybridity happens : unpacking plural security and justice provision in Sierra Leone / Lisa Denney -- The international-local interface in peacebuilding : the case of Bougainville / Volker Boege -- Customary conflict resolution in a state environment: cases from Vanuatu / Volker Boege and Miranda Forsyth -- The hybridisation of peace, security and justice : cases from West Africa and Oceania / Volker Boege -- Peace formation in heterogeneous states : concluding thoughts / M. Anne Brown and Kwesi Aning.