• The authors of the liberal peace critique literature argue that local ownership should mean taking the recipient societies’ (rather than simply governments’ and elites’) understanding of the problems and solutions as the starting point of peacebuilding.
• Eli Stamnes is Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

  Values, Context and Hybridity: How Can the Insights from the Liberal Peace Critique Literature Be Brought to Bear on the Practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?