A requiem for peacebuilding?

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A requiem for peacebuilding?

Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Barbara Segaert, editors

(Rethinking peace and conflict studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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  • NCID
    BC04264206
  • ISBN
    • 9783030564766
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 247 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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