In Search for Emancipatory Hybridity in Sierra Leone

Peacebuilding: the Shift towards a Hybrid Peace Approach

“…While the liberal paradigm within peacebuilding has been perceived as the only framework that may prevent post-war states for turning back into a circle of violent conflicts, a number of scholars has come to an agreement that the results of the liberal peacebuilding have been mixed and disappointing (Richmond 2008, in Tom 2013. The debate over the outcomes of the liberal peacebuilding that may eventually determine its success and failure has diverged mainstream scholars such as Paris (2010) who strongly agreed that it has made better of the situation in post-conflict states and hence other outside alternatives seem unnecessary to be taken into account.…”

“…It reflects the resilience of the natives against the colonisers as well as the struggle under the imperial domination. In the colonial situation, as Bhabha (1994( , in Tom 2013 points out, that the indigenous people perceived themselves trapped in the middle of two cultures, their own cultures and the colonisers' cultures. The latter was an element that colonisers inflicted to the native people and that the natives frequently resist and negotiate it and eventually this struggle yielded a new form of culture and practice called as hybrid cultures.…”