Peacebuilding and friction : global and local encounters in post conflict societies / edited by Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearoid Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn and Willemijn Verkoren.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : peacebuilding through the lens of friction / Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren -- Frictional spaces : transitional justice between the global and the local / Susanne Buckley Zistel -- Respecting complexity : compound friction and unpredictability in peacebuilding / Gearoid Millar -- Frictional commemoration : Local agency and cosmopolitan politics at memorial sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda / Johanna Mannergren Selimovic -- Escaping friction : practices of creating non-frictional space in Sierra Leone / Lise Philipsen -- Sites of friction : governance, identity and space in Mostar / Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic -- The imagined agent of peace : frictions in peacebuilding through civil society strengthening / Willemijn Verkoren and Mathijs van Leeuwen -- Friction over justice in post-war Sri Lanka : actors in local-global encounters / Kristine Höglund and Camilla Orujela -- The "awkward" success of peacebuilding in Cambodia : creative and incomplete, unsustainable yet resilient, progressing but stalling / Joakim Öjendal and Sivhuoch Ou -- Frictions in illusionstan : engagement between the "global" and the "local" in Afghanistan's imagi-nation-building / Jaïr van der Lijn -- Connections for peace : frictions in peacebuilding encounters in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo / Sara Hellmüller -- Problematising global-local dynamics in Timor-Leste / Maria Raquel Freire and Paula Duarte Lopes -- Conclusions : peacebuilding and the significance of friction / Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren.