Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia, 1st ed. 2020 Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia Series

This book explores hybrid peacebuilding in Asia, focusing on local intermediaries bridging the gaps between incumbent governments and insurgents, national leadership and the grassroots constituency, and local stakeholders and international intervenors. The contributors shed light on the functions of rebel gatekeepers in Bangsamoro, the Philippines, and Buddhist Peace monks in Cambodia to illustrate the mechanism of dialogue platforms through which gaps are filled and the nature of hybrid peace is negotiated. The book also discusses the dangers of hybrid peacebuilding by examining the cases of India and Indonesia where national level illiberal peace was achieved at the expense of welfare of minority groups. They suggest a possible role of outsiders in hybrid peacebuilding and mutually beneficial partnership between them and local intermediaries.

Yuji Uesugi is Professor at Waseda University, Japan, teaching conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and human security. He has worked as a peacebuilding practitioner in Timor-Leste, Bangsamoro, Cambodia, and Indonesia.

Fills the existing knowledge gap in the literature on the special features of peacebuilding practices in Asia Links the concept of democratization to the concept of "hybrid peacebuilding" Presents a narrative of hybrid peacebuilding in Asia undertaken by an "illiberal" state and divorced from the state-building endeavor