This article investigates the relationship between the statebuilding efforts currently emphasised as necessary for development and security in post-conflict settings, and the possibilities for broader peacebuilding efforts to be prioritised. It does this through an analysis of the push to form a centralised formal police force in the Solomon Islands where more informal sites of policing authority already exist. The paper suggests that the narrower emphasis on statebuilding as represented by a focus on the institutional rebuilding of police needs to be reoriented towards a focus on peacebuilding as represented by a more flexible approach to supporting sustainable broader forms of policing.
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