The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding: The Liberal Peace Challenged

ISBN-13: 9781138293007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Joakim Ojendal; Isabell Schierenbeck; Caroline Hughes

Opis

Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction do often not work to satisfaction. There is now a growing awareness of the significance of democratic local governments as an integrated part of peacebuilding in order to improve quality and enhance precision of interventions. In spite of this, the local is rarely a key factor in peacebuilding, hence everyday peace is hardly achieved. The aim of this volume is threefold: firstly it illuminates the substantial reasons for working with a more localised approach in politically volatile contexts. Secondly it consolidates a growing debate on the significance of the local in these contexts. Thirdly, it problematizes the often too swiftly used concept, the local, and critically discuss to what extent it is at all feasible to integrate this into macro-oriented and securitized contexts. This is a unique volume, tackling the local turn of peacebuilding in a comprehensive and critical way. This book was first published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly."

Spis treści

The struggle versus the song – the local turn in peacebuilding: an introduction  The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding: a literature review of effective and emancipatory local peacebuilding   Where is the local? Critical localism and peacebuilding,    Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research  The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity  Palestinian unity and everyday state formation: subaltern ‘ungovernmentality’ versus elite interests   Poor people’s politics in East Timor  The ‘local turn’ saving liberal peacebuilding? Unpacking virtual peace in Cambodia,    National policy in local practice: the case of Rwanda,    Local violence and politics in KwaZulu-Natal: perceptions of agency in a post-conflict society,   . Reducing fragility through strengthening local governance in Guinea,    Rethinking justice and institutions in African peacebuilding,    Beyond the local turn divide: lessons learnt, relearnt and unlearnt,