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Prof Oliver Richmond

Honorary Professor

Email

opr@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Oliver Richmond's primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its interlinkages with IR theory. He is interested in how critical approaches to international theory impact upon debates about conflict and peace, and in concepts of peace and their implicit usages in IR theory (see his recent book, , Routledge 2008). His well known book, The Transformation of Peace was published in 2005/7 and was funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship. It examined the conceptualisation of peace, and in particular the construction of the 'liberal peace', in post-conflict zones.  A new volume called 'Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Peacebuilding and Statebuilding' was derived from the Liberal Peace Transitions project at CPCS (2006-8) which resulted from 'Transformation of Peace'. Since his critical work on the liberal peace was first published he has become interested in hybridity, the local, resistance, and other forms of agency in peacebuilding, as well as their impact on shaping a 'post-liberal peace'

He is currently co-directing and involved in projects on 'A Just and Durable Peace' (EUFP7), 'Liberal Peace Transitions II' (funded by the Nuffield Trust, the University of 58³Ô¹Ï and GTZ), Orthodox Terrorism and Liberal Peacebuilding (funded by the British Academy), and 'Rethinking the Liberal Peace' (funded by the UN University and the University of 58³Ô¹Ï). He is also involved with a PRIO project on the 'Ethics of Liberal Peace' led by Kristoffer Liden and Peter Burgess. He has been involved in fieldwork in Cyprus and Turkey, Kosovo, Bosnia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, the Solomon Islands, Nepal and Kashmir, as well as in the Eastern Congo region. He is also an Associate Editor of the Review of International Studies which is currently based at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï.

He directs the , which houses many of the projects mentioned above. This centre was the first of its kind in Scotland, and aims to stimulate and facilitate new thinking in theoretical and empirical terms in the area of peace and conflict studies. The centre's research projects, conducted by Oliver Richmond and by the centre's full time research fellow, Dr. Audra Mitchell, involves theoretical and comparative fieldwork in a number of post-conflict peacebuilding sites. The centre also hosts a number of PhD students and an MLitt programme in Peace and Conflict Studies.

Finally, he edits a Palgrave Book Series called , which seeks to provide a forum for the development of new and alternative approaches for understanding the dynamics of conflict and of the construction of peace.

Oliver Richmond is currently on extended research leave.

For further details see Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies,

Selected publications

• Richmond, O. P., 1 Jan 2012, A Post-Liberal Peace. Vol. 9780203810262. p. 1-277 277 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Richmond, O. P., 2010, Palgrave Macmillan.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Richmond, O. P., 2010, Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations. Vol. 9780203847589. p. 43-55 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Richmond, O. P., 2009, In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 3, 3, p. 324-344

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Richmond, O. P. & Franks, J., 2009, In: Journal of South East Europe and Black Sea Studies.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Liden, K., MacGinty, R. & Richmond, O. P., 2009, In: International Peacekeeping. 16, 5, p. 587-598

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Fawn, R. & Richmond, O. P., Jun 2009, In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 3, 2, p. 205-238

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Richmond, O. P., 2009, In: Review of International Studies.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Richmond, O. P. & Franks, J., 2009, Edinburgh University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Richmond, O. P., Newman, E. & Paris, R., 2009, UNU press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book