Ngos Mediating Peace: Promoting Inclusion in Myanmar's Nationwide Ceasefire Negotiations

ISBN-13: 9783031421730 / Angielski

Julia Palmiano Federer

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Unsettled Reflections from Golden Valley, Myanmar

Chapter 2: Promoting Peace or Pushing Norms? Understanding Normative Agency in Mediation Processes

Chapter 3: New Kids on the Block: The Rise of NGO Mediators in Mediation and Peacemaking

Chapter 4: The Promised Land of Inclusive Peace: NGO Mediators as Norm Promoters of Inclusion

Chapter 5: What’s in a Norm? What Normative Frameworks in Myanmar Reveal about Inclusivity

Chapter 6: Chronicles of a Norm for Sale: Norm Entrepreneurship in the Myanmar NCA Negotiations

Chapter 7: “The Trouble with Inclusivity”: How Promoting Inclusive Peace led to an Exclusive Outcome

Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Life and Death of Inclusive Peace in Myanmar

O autorze

Julia Palmiano Federer holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Basel and a Masters in International Affairs from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently the Head of Research at the Ottawa Dialogue (University Ottawa), Canada, where she runs a research programme focusing on Track Two Diplomacy and multitrack approaches to peace processes. Julia has published academic articles and policy papers on diverse topics in mediation including inclusion, the Women Peace Security agenda and counter-terrorism, as well as on Myanmar politics. Her academic articles have been published in Negotiation Journal, the Swiss Political Science Review, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and Politics & Governance. Her policy research has been published by peacebuilding and mediation organizations such as swisspeace, the Center for Security Studies ETH Zürich, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, the Norwegian Peacebuilding Research Center, the BRICs Policy Center, the Ottawa Dialogue, and UN Women. She has also lectured and taught across various institutions in Europe, North America and Asia, including the University of Basel, the University of Bern, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, the University of Ottawa, and the Brussels School of International Studies at University of Kent.

Blurb

Can informal actors such as NGOs mediate peace agreements? If so, how does it work and what are the consequences for international peace mediation? This book tackles these questions and more through looking at the role of nongovernmental (NGO) mediators in promoting “inclusive peace” to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The author argues that NGO mediators, traditionally seen as part of civil society or as weak mediators with little power or leverage, have become established mediation actors alongside more formal actors and are redefining the mediation field through norm promotion. However, even if NGO mediators can promote norms, the book questions whether they should promote norms in the first place, as the NCA process shows how the promotion of inclusivity contributed to a more exclusive outcome of years of peace negotiations in Myanmar. The outcome of the NCA process presents a critical and cautionary tale of promoting a presumed universal norm into a given locale and expecting a certain outcome without understanding how an external norm interacts with existing normative frameworks. This is an open access book. 

Julia Palmiano Federer holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Basel and a Master in International Affairs from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Palmiano Federer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa and the Head of Research at the Ottawa Dialogue, an organisation that specializes in the resolution of armed conflicts around the world through Track Two diplomacy, a form of unofficial and informal dialogue between warring parties. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.