PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1989902
Brigitte Piquard
{"title":"What knowledge counts? Local humanitarian knowledge production in protracted conflicts. A Central African Republic case study","authors":"Brigitte Piquard","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1989902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1989902","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sound decision-making in protracted conflict isdependent on the quality and the relevance of the information available and the knowledge produced. Despite the fact that gaps in humanitarian knowledge are common, local humanitarian knowledge is rarely taken into consideration and for political, structural and social reasons, not visible and valued. The paper examines if and how the complementarity of different forms of humanitarian knowledge can reduce existing gaps as well as power imbalances embedded in the humanitarian system. Based on a case study of local humanitarian NGOs’ knowledge production in the Central African Republic, the paper identifies the specificities of local humanitarian knowledge constructed through social consensus, using different information flows and responding to various interests, needs and expectations. It argues that a better understanding of the local humanitarian knowledge, its production, and the collaboration through co-production of knowledge will strengthen sense making and relevance of contextualised humanitarian responses.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 4","pages":"85 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41264666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1989901
Hyuk Kang
{"title":"Enforced silence or mindful non-violent action? Everyday peace and South Korean victims of civilian massacres in the Korean War","authors":"Hyuk Kang","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1989901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1989901","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines why victims of violence pursue and justify non-violent forms of life in post-conflict environments. While previous scholars tend to explain that victims’ daily mechanism is marked by their silence and avoidance of violent confrontation to have a secure life, this study elaborates victims’ accounts of such actions when they should live together with their perpetrating enemies in the same place. Investigating victims’ narratives in the South Korean context as an example, this study found that victims perform non-violent behaviours as a survival strategy to avoid social stigma and further victimization. Moreover, they adopt ethical considerations to cultivate the moral self and envisage social change. Given the research findings, this study concludes that victims’ daily behaviours have the quality of everyday peace, in that they demonstrate reactive and proactive responses with both practical and moral considerations of their adversaries and the suppressive social structure.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"297 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49120293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1989900
Tareq Sydiq, Miriam Tekath
{"title":"Youth as generational configurations: Conceptualising conflicts along generation-based dynamics","authors":"Tareq Sydiq, Miriam Tekath","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1989900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1989900","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While research within peace and conflict studies frequently discusses youth, and simultaneously criticises the terminology surrounding it, it predominantly considers it as an age-based category. Based on such criticisms, we develop a conceptualisation of youth as a social category, arguing that such generational configurations allow insights into conflict dynamics hidden by a purely age-based conceptualisation. We contrast definitions of age-based youth rooted in epistemic regimes with a sociological understanding of youth generations in an attempt to decouple our definition from such power structures. We suggest three insights from this: That youth generations can work within existing power structures and institutions to address their concerns, rather than being intrinsically antagonistic towards them; that concepts and definitions of youth are rooted in epistemic regimes and thus conceal their highly diverse and situative experiences; and that third, by forming youth generations as social groups, common experiences generate meaning for generation-based conflict dynamics.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"51 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46328255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1977016
Cagla Demirel
{"title":"Re-conceptualising competitive victimhood in reconciliation processes: the case of Northern Ireland","authors":"Cagla Demirel","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1977016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1977016","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The literature on competitive victimhood (CV) tends be guided by a dichotomous interpretation based on a crude-binary distinction between CV and inclusive/common victimhood, with the former referring to conflict and the latter to reconciliation. For a fine-grained interpretation of CV, this paper aims to show that actors’ use of victimhood narratives can be understood through a richer conceptualization of CV. Observing that actors tend to use victimhood narratives with varying intensity of competitiveness, I propose a CV typology to illustrate narrative variation in conflict-to-peace transition. The typology is developed in a two-staged process, firstly, by analytically distinguishing five categories of CV and, secondly, by putting these categories into practice in the case of Northern Ireland through an analysis of party manifestos and personal interviews with local actors conducted in Belfast in 2018. The empirical results show that the typology is helpful for capturing the transitions of competitiveness in intergroup reconciliation.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"11 1","pages":"45 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42303411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-09-12DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1977018
Amal Bourhrous
{"title":"Peacebuilding paradigms: the impact of theoretical diversity on implementing sustainable peace","authors":"Amal Bourhrous","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1977018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1977018","url":null,"abstract":"Peacebuilding Paradigms analyzes how seven political science paradigms: realism, liberalism, constructivism, cosmopolitanism, critical theories, locality and policy, have been used to interpret the causes and consequences of peacebuilding differently. The contributors explore the arguments of each paradigm, and then compare and contrast them. This book suggests that a hybrid approach that incorporates useful insights from each of these paradigms best explains how and why peacebuilding projects and policies succeed in some cases, fail in others, and provide lessons learned. Rather than merely using a theoretical approach, the authors use case studies to demonstrate why a focus on just one paradigm alone as an explanatory model is insufficient. This collection explains how peacebuilding theory affects peacebuilding policies and provides recommendations for best practices for future peacebuilding missions.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"11 1","pages":"110 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41453032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-08-04DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1956751
Asbel Bohigues, J. Rivas, S. García
{"title":"Elite support for peace agreements: evidence from Colombia","authors":"Asbel Bohigues, J. Rivas, S. García","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1956751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1956751","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2016, Colombians in a plebiscite rejected the Peace Agreement between the government and FARC, although a new version was approved by Congress later that year. Attention has been paid to this plebiscite and public opinion, but little empirical evidence has been offered on the attitudes of the Colombian political elites who ultimately approved the Agreement. Drawing on elite surveys made before (2014) and after (2018) the Agreement, this is the first article to address legislators’ support for political participation of former guerrilla, and reductions of their sentences and penalties. Results show that pro-military and right-leaning legislators were less supportive of political participation, while female and lower-income legislators were less supportive of reductions in sentences. However, between 2014 and 2018 the effect of political attitudes loses strength, as opposed to sociodemographics. We argue that this was due to mixed signals sent by the new government regarding implementation of the Agreement.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"66 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1956751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45890712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-07-12DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1952792
Bernard B. Fyanka
{"title":"Dancing conflicts, unfolding peaces: movement as method to elicit conflict transformation","authors":"Bernard B. Fyanka","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1952792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1952792","url":null,"abstract":"Paula Ditzel Facci’s work on dance and conflict is uniquely poised to occupy a seminal position in applied studies on conflict transformation. Her earlier book On Human Potential: Peace and Conflic...","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"353 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1952792","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42890023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1940434
Jessica Watkins, Mustafa Hasan
{"title":"Post-ISIL reconciliation in Iraq and the local anatomy of national grievances: the case of Yathrib","authors":"Jessica Watkins, Mustafa Hasan","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1940434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1940434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The incentive for international agencies to promote ‘local’ peacebuilding is commonly premised on the hope that micro-level interventions can nourish grassroots activism and participatory citizenship. Tracing reconciliation processes across Iraq following the defeat of ISIL provides a window through which to view the transactional relationships between ‘national’ and ‘local’ forms of politics, conflict and peace in post-Ba’athist Iraq. This paper focuses on the example of Yathrib, Salah al-Din province, where over ninety per cent of residents were displaced in 2014, and an estimated eighty-five per cent subsequently returned following peace negotiations. The paper uses qualitative interview findings to demonstrate on the one hand that seemingly ‘local’ tribal solutions are built into national-level ‘peace strategies’, while on the other, state capture and power politics is infused into the management of apparently parochial disputes. While these observations are not an indictment of international efforts to intervene at the subnational level, they serve to thoroughly ‘de-romanticise’ the local.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"335 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1940434","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44930879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1936940
David Mitchell, Dan Gudgeon, Dong Jin Kim
{"title":"Sport and strategic peacebuilding: Northern Ireland and Korea compared","authors":"David Mitchell, Dan Gudgeon, Dong Jin Kim","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1936940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1936940","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article contributes to the growing body of scholarship on sport’s peacebuilding capacity by comparing the role of sport in two peace processes, Northern Ireland and Korea. Uniquely, the analysis is guided by the concept of strategic peacebuilding which goes beyond the much-criticised liberal peacebuilding ‘toolkit’ and emphasises the importance of coordinated action at all levels and by many types of actor. The empirical sections examine the peacebuilding roles of sport at state level – in relation to elite sport, symbolism and diplomacy – and at grassroots level, particularly people-to-people projects. The article shows how and why sport has been able to play certain peacebuilding roles in each case, as well as the constraints on sport placed by structural characteristics of the peace processes. The article argues that the sporting domain can make interdependent peacebuilding inputs at each peacebuilding level, and thus has a distinct potential as a dimension of strategic peacebuilding.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"37 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1936940","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46529091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PeacebuildingPub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1930947
Alina Dixon
{"title":"Derry girls and the politics of the everyday: theorising for a more youth-inclusive approach to peacebuilding","authors":"Alina Dixon","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1930947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1930947","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The popular sitcom Derry Girls is a witty take on director Lisa McGee’s adolescent experience in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. While set in an era of exceptional sectarian violence, Derry Girls showcases the ways that conflict becomes entangled within mundane, everyday life and how young people are profoundly affected by conflict yet are continually excluded from conflict-related decision-making. I draw on Derry Girls to unpack the theoretical framework offered by Berents and McEvoy-Levy that seeks to include young people more intentionally in peacebuilding. This paper offers credence to a movement that defines peacebuilding differently than the state-centric and elite-driven model that has predominated peace and conflict studies, and instead follows the important contributions of sociological perspectives to the field. I argue that a more youth-inclusive approach to peacebuilding requires re-examining the very concepts that underpin ‘youth’ and ‘peacebuilding’ and the barometers by which successful peace is measured.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"313 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1930947","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49132262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}