INTRODUCTION

Where are the stewards of peace? 5

AFTER LIBERAL HEGEMONY

After the West 15

The avatars of liberal peace 21

(De)Stabilizing the Sahel? Why external security interventions keep failing 27

FRAGMENTED POWER

Dispersed peacebuilding, contracted peace 33

A world of pieces, a peace of power 41

Peace as business in Gaza 49

ILLIBERAL ASSEMBLAGES

Liberal residue and illiberal innovation for conflict management in the Middle East 57

When patches meet: adaptive peace and the illiberal turn in Syria 65

The multiple shades of Turkey’s kurdish peace process 73

PEACE OUT OF SYNC

Dissonant peace: when peace runs on different clocks 81

The public sphere has become unable to talk about peace 89

How changing threat perceptions are transforming Europe’s peacebuilding community 95

EVERYDAY OPENINGS

The continuum of feminist resistances in Kosovo 103

Towards a pluralist everyday peace 109

Consolidation amid fragmentation in Myanmar’s peace process 117