Islands of achievement: How people are rebuilding after war ends : Locally-driven strategies offer new models for international peacebuilding in conflict-torn societies

ISBN-13: 9783639142181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 100 str.

Rosemary Cairns

Opis

This book explores lessons that internationalpeacebuilders can draw from two societies that haverebuilt after destructive conflict - one in Africaand one in the Balkans. In Somaliland, local peopledeveloped an innovative, democratic system ofgovernance that suited their traditions and culture,and rebuilt their devastated society with little helpfrom the outside world, which was focused on tryingto rebuild Somalia as a state. Bosnia''s Br koDistrict was a key area for all warring partiesduring the 1992-5 Bosnian war, and the question ofwho would control it almost derailed the Dayton peacenegotiations that ended the war. Internationalarbitration, supervision, and investment focused oncreating a District in which local people could, ifthey wanted to, rebuild a peaceful, sustainable,multi-ethnic society. Exploring the similarities, anddifferences, in locally-driven peacebuilding in thesetwo ''islands of achievement'' suggests new ways thatinternational peacebuilders can work with peopleliving in societies that have been torn apart byconflict.

O autorze

Rosemary Cairns studied Human Security and Peacebuilding, after a
career in community development and facilitation, because she
wanted to change the international development conversation from
"problem-focused" to "capacity-focused". Her book focuses on two
different examples of locally-driven peacebuilding, in Africa and
the Balkans.