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Overview

Oliver P. Richmond is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their academic work lies primarily within the Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Development, Gender Studies, and Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

The research topics covered by Richmond focus extensively on issues related to peace and security. These topics include Peacebuilding and International Security, Global Peace and Security Dynamics, Political Conflict and Governance, Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East, International Development and Aid, Gender, Security, and Conflict, and Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance.

The scientist has published several papers in recent years, with notable titles such as:

  • Blockages to Peace Formation in Latin America: The Role of Criminal Governance, 2021, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
  • Peace in Analogue/ Digital International Relations, 2020, Global Change Peace & Security
  • What is an emancipatory peace?, 2021, Journal of International Political Theory
  • The international dynamics of counter-peace, 2023, European Journal of International Relations
  • How Norms Matter in Mediation: An Introduction, 2020, Swiss Political Science Review

Richmond has collaborated frequently with several scholars, including Sandra Pogodda, Gëzim Visoka, Roger Mac Ginty, Ioannis Tellidis, and Stefanie Kappler.

The venues in which Richmond commonly publishes include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Global Society, Peacebuilding, Civil Wars, and Edinburgh University Press eBooks.

Their book publications span several respected academic publishers. Books include:

  • The Transformation of Peace (Springer International Publishing, 2024)
  • Failed Peacemaking (Springer International Publishing, 2023)
  • Peace in Digital International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
  • The Grand Design (Oxford University Press, 2022)
  • Local Legitimacy and International Peacebuilding (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

Best Publications

  • The local turn in peace building: A critical agenda for peace

    Roger Mac Ginty;Oliver P Richmond

  • The Transformation of Peace

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • A Post-Liberal Peace

    Oliver P Richmond

  • Resistance and the Post-liberal Peace

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • The problem of peace: understanding the ‘liberal peace’

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding

    Oliver P. Richmond;Jason Franks

  • Becoming Liberal, Unbecoming Liberalism: Liberal-Local Hybridity via the Everyday as a Response to the Paradoxes of Liberal Peacebuilding

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • A post-liberal peace: Eirenism and the everyday

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • Hybrid Forms of Peace: From Everyday Agency to Post-Liberalism

    Oliver P Richmond;Audra Mitchell

  • New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding

    Edward Newman;Roland Paris;Oliver P. Richmond

  • UN peace operations and the dilemmas of the peacebuilding consensus

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • The fallacy of constructing hybrid political orders: a reappraisal of the hybrid turn in peacebuilding

    Roger Mac Ginty;Oliver Richmond

  • The problem of peace: understanding the ‘liberal peace’

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  • Challenges to peacebuilding : managing spoilers during conflict resolution

    Edward Newman;Oliver P. Richmond

  • Maintaining order, making peace

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • Devious objectives and the disputants' view of international mediation: A theoretical framework

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • De-romanticising the local, de-mystifying the international: hybridity in Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • Liberal Hubris? Virtual peace in Cambodia

    Oliver P. Richmond;Jason Franks

  • Failed statebuilding : intervention and the dynamics of peace formation

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • Liberal Peacebuilding in Timor Leste: The Emperor's New Clothes?

    Oliver P. Richmond;Jason Franks

  • A Genealogy of Peace and Conflict Theory

    Oliver P. Richmond

  • Liberal Peace Transitions

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Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Mac Ginty
Roger Mac Ginty Durham University
Edward Newman
Edward Newman University of Leeds
David Chandler
David Chandler University of Westminster
Nathalie Tocci
Nathalie Tocci Istituto Affari Internazionali
Annika Björkdahl
Annika Björkdahl Lund University
Amitai Etzioni
Amitai Etzioni George Washington University
Paul F. Diehl
Paul F. Diehl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor University of St Andrews

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