Abstract

This paper examines a post-liberal hybrid holistic peace model that interconnects liberal peace and Buddhist peace. Following the critique of liberal peace in the postliberal peacebuilding, there has been a rising urgency to build a complementary relationship between the liberal peace thesis and non-Western vision of peace. This research seeks to be an exemplar of that by constructing a hybrid peace model that combines Buddhist peace and liberal peace. While liberal peace represented by democracy, human rights, and market-oriented economy is structurally and institutionally oriented, Buddhism has developed internal dimensions of peace. This paper explores how Western structurally and institutionally oriented liberal peace and Buddhist inner peace characterized as the practice of multiple functions of mind, reflective self-awareness, non-dualistic thinking and compassion to empower humankind internally, can complement each other to offer a post-liberal hybrid holistic peace model.