A requiem for peacebuilding?
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A requiem for peacebuilding?
(Rethinking peace and conflict studies)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book assesses the claim that peacebuilding is a moribund international practice. Its contributors trace the origins of peacebuilding, bring back to memory its moments of triumph, and reflect on the reports of its decline. The story of peacebuilding parallels the broader story of liberalism's rise and fall in world politics, including the attempt to remedy an ailing patient by administering a magic medicine - "the local turn". Its contributors further write about what may come after peacebuilding as we still know it. They describe more locally rooted attempts at building peace and how they operate in the shadows of, and in an ambiguous relationship with, governmental and international peacebuilders. The book finally suggests that reports of the pending death of peacebuilding are probably premature. Peacebuilding is a resilient international practice, apt to adjust itself to a changing environment, and too important a source of legitimacy for those that wield power.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Peacebuilding's Predicament: A Dark Mood among the Experts
PART I: Why Peacebuilding Appears Moribund
Chapter 2: Peacebuilding's Origins and History
Chapter 3: Revisiting the Local Turn in Peacebuilding
Chapter 4: Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather than Disrupts Power
PART II: How Peacebuilding Takes Shape in the Margins
Chapter 5: The Missing Link in Hybrid Peacebuilding: Localized Peace Trajectories and Endogenous Knowledge
Chapter 6: Old and New Peace in El Salvador. How Peace Strategies Emerge, Disappear, and Transform
Chapter 7: Land and Peacebuilding: The Case of the Peacebuilding Process in Colombia through the Peasant Reserve Zones
Chapter 8: Peacebuilding and Resistance: Inequality, Empowerment, Refusal
PART III: Can Peacebuilding Be Recreated at the Centre?
Chapter 9: Achieving a Feminist Peace by Blurring Boundaries between Private and Public
Chapter 10: The Fraught Development of an International Peace Architecture
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