Oliver Richmond

Biography

Oliver Richmond''s primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its inter-linkages with IR theory. He is currently working on a book on Peace and Intervention in the 21st Century. His most recent work has been on peace formation and its relation to state formation, statebuilding, and peacebuilding (Failed Statebuilding and Peace Formation, Yale University Press 2014 & Peace Formation and Political Order, Oxford University Press,  2016). This area of interest has grown out of his work on local forms of critical agency and resistance, and their role in constructing hybrid or post-liberal forms of peace and states (see A Post-Liberal Peace, Routledge, 2011), as well as earlier conflict resolution and conflict management debates in IR, including international mediation, peacekeeping, and state formation debates.  He has also recently published a Very Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press,  2014), which offers an overview of the development of related concepts, theory and practices.

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

He edits a Palgrave Book Series called Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, 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: http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/SearchResults.aspx?s=RCS&sort=or_0&fid=163813

He is co-editor of the journal "Peacebuilding": www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rpcbcfp.pdf

He is also a member of the editorial boards of several key journals, and is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, International  Professor at the School of Global Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromso, Norway.