ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the complex relationship between terrorism approaches and peacebuilding based on the four categories. These range from blocking each others' aims, nullifying terrorism, supporting a very limited, or a broader peace process. This relates to the critical approach of using theory to create emancipatory forms of peace, which is used as a basis for the examination of the production of hybridity via the interaction of approaches to terrorism and peacebuilding. The chapter expresses that "post-liberal" possibilities for a hybrid form of peace offer a "post-terrorist" potential for peace processes. Orthodox terrorism approaches, as with liberal peacebuilding, have become relatively empty signifiers that have lost some of the explanatory and practical traction they once had. Liberal peacebuilding approaches that are designed and executed as top-down policies, in tandem with the controversies generated by dominant approaches to terrorism, often confound efforts that seek to produce a durable and sustainable peace.
