Power, Resistance and Hybridity in International Peacebuilding

Abstract

Chapter 5 regards hybridity, agency, power and resistance as essential in understanding local agency and hybrid forms of peace. It employs hybridity as a conceptual approach in understanding the dynamics in post-conflict Sierra Leone in the context of liberal peacebuilding. The chapter also conceptualizes power and resistance as well as identify typologies of hybridity. It argues that not all forms of hybridity and resistance create conditions for durable and sustainable peace, and as such, it is crucial to distinguish forms hybridity and resistance that are useful in promoting emancipation from those that do not change people’s circumstances, that is, that are futile, regressive or an accommodation with power.