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Peacebuilding in crisis

rethinking paradigms and practices of transnational cooperation

ed. by Tobias Debiel ; Thomas Held ; Ulrich Schneckener

Buch

englisch

Debiel, Tobias (Ed.) DNB
Schneckener, Ulrich (Ed.) DNB
Held, Thomas (Ed.) DNB

Routledge

New York, NY [u.a.]

2016

264 p.

978-1-138-85859-6

Includes bibliographical references and index

peace studies
international relations
peacebuilding
international cooperation
methodology

Contents:

Preface Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held and Ulrich Schneckener 1. Peacebuilding in Crisis? Debating peacebuilding paradigms and practices Ulrich Schneckener Part 1 Reflecting Peacebuilding Paradigms 2. Peacebuilding and Paternalism Michael Barnett 3. The Future of Peacebuilding David Chandler 4. Relational Peacebuilding: Promise beyond crisis Morgan Brigg Part 2 Revisiting Peacebuilding Practices 5. Peacebuilding and Democracy Promotion: What current challenges to the latter might tell us for rethinking the former Jonas Wolff 6. Adapted instead of Imported: Peacebuilding by power-sharing Andreas Mehler 7. Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Research and Practice: Achievements and shortcomings Martina Fischer 8. Truth Commissions, Human Rights and Gender: Normative changes in transitional moments Susanne Buckley-Zistel 9. Reforming the Security Sector and Rule of Law: The hidden transcripts of local resistance Keith Krause 10. Corporate Peace: Crisis in economic peacebuilding Michael Pugh Part 3 Rethinking Promises and Pitfalls of 'the Local' 11. What do we mean when we use the term 'local'? Imagining and framing the local and the international in relation to peace and order Roger Mac Ginty 12. Understanding the "local" in Peacebuilding: Conceptual discourses and empirical realities Thania Paffenholz 13. False Promise: 'Local ownership' and the denial of self-government Pol Bargues-Pedreny 14. Rethinking the Local in Peacebuilding: Moving away from the liberal/post-liberal divide Tobias Debiel and Patricia Rinck

Summary:

The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high expectations and did not acquire a sufficient legitimacy on the local level. Written by leading experts in the field, this edited volume brings together 'liberal' and 'post-liberal' approaches to peacebuilding. Besides challenging dominant peacebuilding paradigms, the book scrutinizes how far key concepts of post-liberal peacebuilding offer sound categories and new perspectives to reframe peacebuilding research. It thus moves beyond the 'liberal'-'post-liberal' divide and systematically integrates further perspectives, paving the way for a new era in peacebuilding research which is theory-guided, but also substantiated in the empirical analysis of peacebuilding practices. This book will be essential reading for postgraduate students and scholar-practitioners working in the field of peacebuilding. By embedding the subject area into different research perspectives, the book will also be relevant for scholars who come from related backgrounds, such as democracy promotion, transitional justice, statebuilding, conflict and development research and international relations in general.

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