Hybrid Peace Governance: Its Emergence and Significance

In hybrid peace governance, liberal and illiberal norms, institutions, and exist alongside each other, interact, and even clash. Such a political, , and social order is a far cry from the liberal idea of peace based legitimate and accountable democratic institutions, the rule of law, rights, free media, market economy, and an open civil society. This accounts for the emergence of hybrid peace governance and de a typology based on the war/peace and liberal/illiberal spectra. Fur, it discusses the implications of hybridity and, in particular, it can avoid the pitfalls of top-down liberal peacebuilding and new opportunities for a more sustainable, locally engrained ver of peace.