Part I: Concepts and Thematic Treatments 1. Introduction: Seeking Peace in West Africa and Oceania - New Directions, M. Anne Brown and Kwesi Aning 2. Challenging Conventional Understandings of Statehood: West African Realities, Kwesi Aning and Festus Aubyn 3. Working with 'Illiberal' Sources of Peace and Order - Talking About Human Rights, M. Anne Brown 4. What to Do with Informal Security and Justice: The Dilemma for African States, Bruce Baker 5.Relational Perspectives on Peace Formation: Symbiosis and the Provision of Security and Justice. Charles T. Hunt 6.Gender and Hybridity: Exploring the Contributions of Women in Hybrid Political Orders in West Africa, Nancy Annan Part II: Case Studies in West Africa and Oceania 7. Hybridity and Expressions of Power, Legitimacy, Justice and Security Provision in Ghana, Kwesi Aning, Nancy Annan and Fiifi Edu-Afful 8. Understanding and Explaining Hybridity in Liberia, Thomas Jaye 9. How Hybridity Happens: Unpacking Plural Security and Justice Provision in Sierra Leone, Lisa Denney 10. The International-Local Interface in Peacebuilding: The Case of Bougainville, Volker Boege 11. Customary Conflict Resolution in a State Environment: Cases from Vanuatu, Volker Boege and Miranda Forsyth 12. The Hybridisation of Peace, Security and Justice: Cases from West Africa and Oceania, Volker Boege 13. Peace Formation in Heterogeneous States: Concluding Thoughts, M. Anne Brown and Kwesi Aning