1 Interventionary Order and its Methodologies The Relationship between Peace and Intervention Oliver P. Richmond 1 Dept. of Politics, University of Manchester Abstract Recently there have been calls from policymakers around the world for practically engaged research to produce evidence-based policy for peace, security, and development. Policymakers aim to align three types of methodological approaches to knowledge about peace, security and development in international order: methodological liberalism at state and international levels, aligned with ‘methodological everydayism’, in order to constrain methodological nationalism. Policy operates through broad forms of intervention legitimated via the liberal peace framework, spanning military, governmental, and developmental processes, which scholarship is expected to refine. Critical scholarship is sensitive about intervention, however, often connecting methodological everydayism with global justice frameworks rather than methodological nationalism or liberalism. “Sir Philip Mitchell, later colonial governor of Uganda, Fiji, and Kenya, responded to Malinowski’s claims [that the British government needed the support of Anthropologists] with great scepticism, emphatically expressing a preference for the “practical man” rather than the scientist.” (Lewis: 2014: 94)” Introduction Recent calls from elites and policymakers around the world for practically engaged research to produce evidence-based policy, for empirical and ‘big-data’ incursions into the ‘local’ and ‘everyday’, relate to a number of significant processes in contemporary international relations. They include constraining or facilitating military and humanitarian intervention, peace processes and peacebuilding, statebuilding, promoting human rights and democracy, or development and modernisation. They are often connected discursively to the goal of everyday and hybrid peace as a route to emancipation. The academy is required to support such goals by inventing new and useful disciplines (as with Anthropology, mentioned in the above epigraph) and more recently through more interdisciplinary contributions. Since the end of the Cold War, knowledge production in International Relations, peace and conflict studies, as well as in international policy settings, tends to focus on 1 Oliver Richmond is a Professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK. He is also International Professor, College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tromso. His publications include Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Failed Statebuilding (Yale University Press, 2014). He is editor of the Palgrave book series, Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, and co-editor of the Journal, Peacebuilding. Thanks to the audiences at the Millennium Conference at the LSE in autumn 2015 and ECPR in Sicily in May 2016.