A Genealogy of Peace and Conflict Theory; O.Richmond PART I: CRITICAL AGENDAS: THEORIES, CONCEPTS, AND METHODS War, Government, Politics: A Critical Response to the Hegemony of the Liberal Peace; V.Jabri Reconstruction: The Missing Historical Link; A.Williams Method: Theory and Ethnography in Peace and Conflict Studies; J.Victorova Challenging Statebuilding as Peacebuilding: Working with Hybrid Political Orders to Build Peace; V.Beoge, A.Brown, K.Clements& A.Nolan Human Security and the Legitimization of Peacebuilding; S.Tadjbakhsh Gender and Peacebuilding; T.Varynen Liberal Peace, Liberal Imperialism: A Gramscian Critique; I.Taylor The Ideology of Peace: Peacebuilding and the War in Iraq; M.V.Rasmussen PART II: KEY AGENDAS: INSTITUTIONS, ISSUES AND THEMES The Institutionalization of Peacebuilding: What Role for the UN Peacebuilding Commission?; A.Bellamy Democratization and Development: A Difficult Relationship; D.Kotse NGO Dilemmas in Peacebuilding; H.Carey Welfare in War-Torn Societies: Nemesis of the Liberal Peace?; M.Pugh Resolving Conflicts and Pursuing Accountability: Beyond 'Justice vs. Peace'; C.Sriram Reconciliation (Reflections from Northern Ireland and South Africa)

J.Darby Training Goldfish (in a Desert): Transforming Political Economies of Conflict Using Voluntarism, Regulation and Supervision; N.Cooper PART III: DEVELOPING AGENDAS Culture: Challenges and Possibilities; M.Brigg Gilding the Lily? International Support for Indigenous and Traditional Peacebuilding; R.MacGinty Kindered Peacebuilding: Liberalism and Beyond; A.Watson Art and Peacebuilding: How Theatre Transforms Conflict in Sri Lanka; N.Premaratna& R.Bleiker Peacebuilding and Environmental Challenges; F.Rotberg The State vs. the Terrorists vs. the People vs. the State and the Terrorists: Peace and Conflict in the Basque Country; I.Tellidis