09.01.2014

Institutskolloquium: Peace and Power

Wednesday, 15 January 2014 · 16:00 c.t. · Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Oliver Richmond, University of Manchester

Peace and Power

Wednesday, 15 January 2014 · 16:00 c.t. · Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft

<link http: www.manchester.ac.uk research oliver.richmond external-link-new-window externen link in neuem>Oliver Richmond is research professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the <link http: www.hcri.ac.uk external-link-new-window externen link in neuem>Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester. He joined Manchester in May 2012 after previous positions in St Andrews and the University of Nicosia (then Intercollege). His primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory and, in particular, its interlinkages with IR theory. He is one of the core critics of the liberal peace and his research interests presently are predominantly concerned with local agency and hybrid forms of peace.

Richmond has received several major grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the EU, the British Academy, the UNU and other funding agencies. He has been involved in fieldwork in Asia, the South Pacific, Africa, the Balkans, and Central America, as well as within key institutions involved in post-conflict peacebuilding and development such as the UN, World Bank and the EU.

Among his recent publications are The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Peace and International Relations: A New Agenda (Routledge, 2008) and A Post Liberal Peace (Routledge, 2011), as well as numerous journal articles. His Peace: A Very Short Introduction is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in November 2014.