This book aims to understand the processes of and the outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet.

Introduction: Peacebuilding through the lens of friction, Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren 1. Frictional spaces: Transitional justice between the global and the local, Susanne Buckley Zistel 2. Respecting complexity: Compound friction and unpredictability in peacebuilding, Gearoid Millar 3. Frictional commemoration. Local agency and cosmopolitan politics at memorial sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic 4. Escaping Friction: Practices of creating non-frictional space in Sierra Leone, Lise Philipsen 5. Sites of Friction: Governance, identity and space in Mostar, Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic 6. The imagined agent of peace: Frictions in peacebuilding through civil society strengthening, Willemijn Verkoren and Mathijs van Leeuwen 7. Friction over justice in post-war Sri Lanka: Actors in local-global encounters, Kristine Höglund and Camilla Orujela 8. The 'awkward' success of peacebuilding in Cambodia - creative and incomplete, unsustainable yet resilient, progressing but stalling, Joakim Öjendal and Sivhuoch Ou 9. Frictions in illusionstan: Engagement between the 'global' and the 'local' in Afghanistan's imagi-nation-building, Jair Van der Lijn 10. Connections for peace: Frictions in peacebuilding encounters in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sara Hellmuller 11. Problematising global-local dynamics in Timor-Leste, Maria Raquel Freire and Paula Duarte Lopes Conclusions: Peacebuilding and the significance of friction, Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren