Peace Through Violence and Violence Through Peace: Peacebuilding Practices and a Conflictual Peace in Lebanon

IF 3 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geopolitics Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1080/14650045.2023.2270936

Hanna Leonardsson

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Abstract

The literature on peace has been filled with notions of peacebuilding in crisis or creating more problems than it solves. However, as peacebuilding is critiqued for not fulfilling its promises, the nuances of peace and violence present in peacebuilding practices are often left ignored. Arguing that peace is a continuum of peace and violence seen by understanding peace as embodied, spatial, and political, the article analyses peacebuilding practices creating a conflictual Lebanese peace. The article looks closer at three such practices: service provision, local interactions, and Lebanese local governance. Through empirical material, the article illustrates how service provision, local interactions and local governance are performed through power relations sustaining a continuum of peace and violence. As such, the article argues that rather than a continuum between peace and violence, Lebanese peacebuilding is a simultaneous process of peace and violence. This questions the assumed opposition between violence and peace and claims that by emphasising peace as embodied, situated, and political we can discern different peace(s) more peaceful for some than others.

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通过暴力实现和平和通过和平实现暴力:黎巴嫩的建设和平实践和冲突中的和平

关于和平的文献充斥着在危机中建设和平或制造比解决更多的问题的概念。然而，由于建设和平因未能履行其承诺而受到批评，建设和平实践中存在的和平与暴力的细微差别往往被忽视。本文认为和平是和平与暴力的连续体，将和平理解为具体的、空间的和政治的，分析了创造冲突黎巴嫩和平的建设和平实践。本文将进一步探讨这三种实践:服务提供、地方互动和黎巴嫩的地方治理。通过实证材料，本文说明了服务提供、地方互动和地方治理如何通过权力关系来维持和平与暴力的连续性。因此，这篇文章认为，黎巴嫩的建设和平是和平与暴力同时发生的过程，而不是和平与暴力之间的连续体。它质疑了暴力与和平之间的对立，并声称通过强调具体的、具体的和政治的和平，我们可以辨别出不同的和平，对某些人来说比其他人更和平。

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Geopolitics Multiple-

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7.60

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10.30%

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期刊介绍： The study of geopolitics has undergone a major renaissance during the past decade. Addressing a gap in the published periodical literature, this journal seeks to explore the theoretical implications of contemporary geopolitics and geopolitical change with particular reference to territorial problems and issues of state sovereignty . Multidisciplinary in its scope, Geopolitics includes all aspects of the social sciences with particular emphasis on political geography, international relations, the territorial aspects of political science and international law. The journal seeks to maintain a healthy balance between systemic and regional analysis.