2011 Catalytic Workshop:
Peace Operations and the Emergency of 'Hybrid Peace'; Impact and Prospects

Workshop Chair: Roberto Belloni, University of Trento
Location: Salon 5, Sheraton
Time: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM, Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Workshop Summary

The workshop participants will explore the issue of ‘hybrid peace’ both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, the concept of hybridity is still underdeveloped. Most scholars and practitioners recognize that liberal peacebuilding has led, in most cases, to a situation of ‘no war, no peace,’ a condition which is a far-cry from the high standards that intervention was supposed to achieve. Rather than establishing a liberal peace, intervention has led to a hybrid condition where both liberal and illiberal elements co-exist. Local actors have rarely complied with international liberal norms and practices. Rather, they reacted to international intervention either by rejecting liberal norms or by adapting them to the domestic context. This condition of hybridity is challenging some of the normative pillars of liberal peacebuilding, such as the concepts of democracy, institution-building and ownership. After discussing these theoretical/conceptual challenges, the workshop will then explore a number of key issue areas, including the role of ex-combatants and their re-integration into civil life, international justice, civil society and economic issues.

Workshop Participants (tentative)

  • Roberto Belloni, University of Trento
  • Anna Jarstad, Uppsala University
  • Richard Atwood, International Crisis Group
  • Kristine Höglund, Uppsala University
  • Bertine Kamphuis, University of Amsterdam
  • Keith Krause, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
  • Chetan Kumar, UNDP Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Recovery
  • Louise Olsson, Folke Bernadotte Academy
  • Anders Nilsson, Uppsala University
  • Eugenia Piza-Lopez, UNDP Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Recovery
  • Timothy D. Sisk, University of Denver
  • Mimmi Söderberg-Kovacs, Uppsala University
  • Johanna Söderström, Uppsala University
  • Francesco Strazzari, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
  • Marie-Joëlle Zahar, University of Montreal
  • Vanessa Wyeth, International Peace Institute