Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding

Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding
Title Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding PDF eBook
Author O. Richmond
Publisher Springer
Pages 483
Release 2010-01-20
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0230282687

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The quality of the peace arrived at via liberal peacebuilding approaches has been poor. The related statebuilding praxis has generally been unable to respond to its critics. What is at stake is a recognition of peacebuilding's everyday political, social, economic, and cultural dynamics. This indicates the emergence of a post-liberal form of peace.

The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace

The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace
Title The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace PDF eBook
Author Oliver Richmond
Publisher Springer
Pages 588
Release 2016-03-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1137407611

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In this handbook, a diverse range of leading scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental underpinnings of peace. This handbook is a much-needed response to the failures of contemporary peacebuilding missions and narrow disciplinary debates, both of which have outlined the need for more interdisciplinary work in International Relations and Peace and Conflict studies. Scholars, students, and policymakers are often disillusioned with universalist and northern-dominated approaches, and a better understanding of the variations of peace and its building blocks, across different regions, is required. Collectively, these chapters promote a more differentiated notion of peace, employing comparative analysis to explain how peace is debated and contested.

The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace

The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace
Title The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace PDF eBook
Author Katerina Standish
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 1206
Release 2021-12-02
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9789811609688

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This Handbook represents an unprecedented exploration of the positive peace platform. It permits a comprehensive appreciation of the breadth of positive peace that engages with nonviolence, environmental sustainability, social justice and positive relationships scholarship. The work serves as a one-stop shop for scholar/practitioners interested in locating their inquiry and outputs in the field of positive peace and provides readers from a multitude of disciplines and academic departments with a comprehensive overview of the multiplicity of positive peace research in one location. In doing so, the Handbook of Positive Peace securely demarcates and recognizes the positive peace platform in social scientific and humanities academic disciplines.

Communication in Peacebuilding

Communication in Peacebuilding
Title Communication in Peacebuilding PDF eBook
Author Stefanie Pukallus
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 271
Release 2021-11-17
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3030861902

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This book is concerned with the role that communication - understood as including both the factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts - can play in post-civil war peacebuilding. It engages with questions of how a society can move from the civil war conditions of discursive dehumanisation to peaceful cooperation in post-civil war settings and how peacebuilders can help communities utilise the transformative capacity of communication to encourage the reimagining of and engagement with former enemies as co-citizens. Ultimately, civil and peaceful cooperation depends on the observance of discursive civility and the building of safe discursive spaces in which civil engagement between different groups of society (including former combatants and survivors) can safely take place. This book argues that understanding communicative peacebuilding in this way is fundamental to the achievement of self-sustainable everyday peace.

The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding

The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding
Title The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding PDF eBook
Author John D. Brewer
Publisher Springer
Pages 314
Release 2018-07-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3319789759

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This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding. It argues that sociological ideas about the nature of everyday life complement and supplement the concept of everyday life peacebuilding recently theorized within International Relations Studies (IRS). It claims that IRS misunderstands the nature of everyday life by seeing it only as a particular space where mundane, routine and ordinary peacebuilding activities are accomplished. Sociology sees everyday life also as a mode of reasoning. By exploring victims’ ways of thinking and understanding, this book argues that we can better locate their accomplishment of peacebuilding as an ordinary activity. The book is based on six years of empirical research in three different conflict zones and reports on a wealth of interview data to support its theoretical arguments. This data serves to give voice to victims who are otherwise neglected and marginalized in peace processes.

Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration

Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration
Title Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration PDF eBook
Author Simon Koschut
Publisher Springer
Pages 289
Release 2016-06-23
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3319303244

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This book develops a theoretical and empirical argument about the disintegration of security communities, and the subsequent breakdown of stable peace among nations, through a process of norm degeneration. It draws together two key bodies of contemporary IR literature – norms and security communities – and brings their combined insights to bear on the empirical phenomenon of disintegration. The investigation of normative change in IR is becoming increasingly popular. Most studies, however, focus on its progressive connotation. The possibility of a weakening or even disappearance of an established peaceful normative order, by contrast, tends to be often either neglected or implicitly assumed. Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration: Undoing Peace advances the contemporary body of research on the important role of norms and ideas by analytically extending recent Constructivist arguments about international norm degeneration to the regional level and by applying them to a particular type of regional order – a security community.

The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding

The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding
Title The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding PDF eBook
Author Joakim Ojendal
Publisher Routledge
Pages 265
Release 2018-10-11
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1351867539

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Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory. There is now a growing awareness of the significance of local governments and local communitites as an intergrated 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 published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.