Dometi i ograničenja liberalne izgradnje mira
THE SUCCESS AND FAILURES OF LIBERAL PEACE

Summary/Abstract: Post-conflict environments in regions such as the Balkans or Southeast Asia are examples of a dominant, liberal form of peacebuilding that assumes that peace can only be achieved by creating states representing a faithful replica of a liberal-democratic model in its political and socio-economic sense (“peace-as-governance”). By relying on the critique of this blueprint state-building, or so-called “IKEA peacebuilding”, the paper analyses the missed opportunities for the implementation of alternative and traditional peacebuilding instruments. The starting point in the analysis is Richmond’s concept of post-liberal peace, which is emancipatory by its nature, and Mac Ginty’s concept of hybridity which stresses the need for synergy of global, national and local actors. At the same time, by emphasizing the importance of the local context and the local approval, the paper seeks to point out the necessity of a paradigm shift in peacebuilding endeavors in regions burdened by violent conflicts.

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