Hybrid Peace Governance: Impact and Prospects of Liberal Peacebuilding

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