In 2009 liberal peace transitions edinburgh university press examined how in the cases of bosnia kosovo timor leste cambodia and the middle east liberal peacebuilding had collapsed into the altogether less ambitious statebuilding project and in any case had failed to produce democracy rights and justice these internationally backed transitions variously described as statebuilding or peacebuilding instead had focused on security institutional reform and marketisation some . Post liberal peace transitions between peace formation and state formation oliver p richmond and sandra pogodda abstract why is it that states emerging from intervention peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be failed by design this book explores the interplay of local peace agency with the neoliberal peacebuilding project it looks at how far local . Post liberal peace transitions between peace formation and state formation oliver p richmond sandra pogodda post liberal peace transitions book description why is it that states emerging from intervention peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be failed by design this study explores the interplay of local peace agency with the neoliberal peacebuilding . 2017 post liberal peace transitions between peace formation and state formation civil wars vol 19 no 4 pp 517 519. Why is it that states emerging from intervention peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be failed by design this book explores the interplay of local peace agency with the neoliberal peacebuilding project it looks at how far local peace formation dynamics can go to counteract the forces of violence and play a role in rebuilding the state consolidate