Peace Figuration After International Intervention

Author : Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317382768

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This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies. It introduces ‘peace figuration’ as a new analytical framework for studying the intentionality, performativity, and consequences of liberal peacebuilding. The work challenges current theories and views and searches for alternative non-conflicted research avenues that are suitable for understanding how peacebuilding intentions are made, how different events shape peace outcomes, and what are the consequences of peacebuilding interventions. Drawing on detailed case studies of peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor-Leste, the book argues that attempts to build peace often fail to achieve the intended outcomes. A figurational view of peacebuilding interventions shows that post-conflict societies experience multiple episodes of success and failure in an unpredictable trajectory. This book develops a relational sociology of peacebuilding impact, which is crucial for overcoming static measurement of peacebuilding successes or failures. It shows that international interventions can shape peace but, importantly, not always in the shape they intended. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.

Author : Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317382751

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Peace Figuration after International Intervention by Gëzim Visoka Pdf

This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies. It introduces ‘peace figuration’ as a new analytical framework for studying the intentionality, performativity, and consequences of liberal peacebuilding. The work challenges current theories and views and searches for alternative non-conflicted research avenues that are suitable for understanding how peacebuilding intentions are made, how different events shape peace outcomes, and what are the consequences of peacebuilding interventions. Drawing on detailed case studies of peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor-Leste, the book argues that attempts to build peace often fail to achieve the intended outcomes. A figurational view of peacebuilding interventions shows that post-conflict societies experience multiple episodes of success and failure in an unpredictable trajectory. This book develops a relational sociology of peacebuilding impact, which is crucial for overcoming static measurement of peacebuilding successes or failures. It shows that international interventions can shape peace but, importantly, not always in the shape they intended. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.

Author : Mandy Turner,Florian P. Kühn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317486466

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The Politics of International Intervention by Mandy Turner,Florian P. Kühn Pdf

This book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume have a dual focus. First, they analyse the practices of western intervention and peacebuilding, and the prejudices and politics that drive them. Second, they explore how communities experience and deal with this intervention, as well as an understanding of how their political and economic priorities can often diverge markedly from those of the intervener. This is achieved through theoretical and thematic chapters, and an extensive number of in-depth empirical case studies. Utilising a variety of conceptual frameworks and disciplines, the book seeks to understand why something so normatively desirable – the pursuit of, and building of, peace – has turned out so badly. From Cambodia to Afghanistan, Iraq to Mali, interventions in the pursuit of peace have not achieved the results desired by the interveners. But, rather, they have created further instability and violence. The contributors to this book explore why. This book will be of much interest to students, academics and practitioners of peacebuilding, peacekeeping, international intervention, statebuilding, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Oliver P. Richmond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474466288

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Local Legitimacy and International Peace Intervention by Oliver P. Richmond Pdf

This edited volume focuses on disentangling the interplay of local peacebuilding processes and international policy, via comparative theoretical and empirical work on the question of legitimacy and authority.

Author : Michael Keren,Donald A. Sylvan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0714681946

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International Intervention by Michael Keren,Donald A. Sylvan Pdf

This study looks at the problems created by international intervention, and the sovereignty versus responsibility dilemma, which lies at the core of the emerging international order.

Author : Bruno Charbonneau,Tony Chafer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317750130

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Peace Operations in the Francophone World by Bruno Charbonneau,Tony Chafer Pdf

This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces. Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers are deployed or were deployed in this part of Africa during the last decade. It is an arena for intervention that deserves more serious attention, if only because it provides fertile ground for exploring the key questions raised in the peacekeeping and peacebuilding literature. For instance, in 2002 a French operation (Licorne) was launched and in 2003 a UN force was deployed in Côte d’Ivoire alongside the French force there. Filling a gap in the current literature, Peace Operations in the Francophone World critically examines peacekeeping and peacebuilding practices in the francophone world, including but not limited to conflict prevention and resolution, security sector reform (SSR), francophone politics, and North–South relations. The book explores whether peace and security operations in francophone spaces have exceptional characteristics when compared with those carried out in other parts of the world and assesses whether an analysis of these operations in the francophone world can make a specific and original contribution to wider international debates about peacekeeping and peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, African politics, security studies, and IR in general.

Author : Paul R. Williams,Milena Sterio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788971645

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Research Handbook on Post-Conflict State Building by Paul R. Williams,Milena Sterio Pdf

As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable peace, practitioners and peacebuilders are faced with the thrilling possibilities and challenges of building new or reformed political, security, judicial, social, and economic structures. This Handbook analyzes these elements of post-conflict state building through the lens of international law, which provides a framework through which the authors contextualize and examine the many facets of state building in relation to the legal norms, processes, and procedures that guide such efforts across the globe. The volume aims to provide not only an introduction to and explanation of prominent topics in state building, but also a perceptive analysis that augments ongoing conversations among researchers, lawyers, and advocates engaged in the field.

Author : Pol Bargués-Pedreny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351174961

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Deferring Peace in International Statebuilding by Pol Bargués-Pedreny Pdf

This book explores the last 25 years of international peacebuilding and recasts them as a growing crisis of confidence in universal ideas of peacebuilding and self-government. Since current peacebuilding interventions are abandoning domineering, top-down and linear methodologies, and experimenting with context-sensitive, self-reflexive and locally driven strategies, the book makes two suggestions. The first is that international policymakers are embracing some of the critiques of liberal peace. For more than a decade, scholarly critiques have pointed out the need to focus on everyday dynamics and local initiatives and resistances to liberal peace in order to enable hybrid and long-term practice-based strategies of peacebuilding. Now, the distance between the policy discourse and critical frameworks has narrowed. The second suggestion is that in stepping away from liberal peace, a transvaluation of peacebuilding values is occurring. Critiques are beginning to accept and valorise that international interventions will continuously fail to produce sensitive results. The earlier frustrations with unexpected setbacks, errors or contingencies are ebbing away. Instead, critiques normalise the failure to promote stability and peace. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, international intervention, conflict resolution, international organisations and security studies in general.

Author : Ho-Won Jeong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786610270

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Conflict Intervention and Transformation by Ho-Won Jeong Pdf

This book is aimed at both professionals and students who desire to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflict intervention and resolution effectively.

Author : Oliver P. Richmond,Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1796 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030779542

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies by Oliver P. Richmond,Gëzim Visoka Pdf

This encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive overview of major theories and approaches to the study of peace and conflict across different humanities and social sciences disciplines. Peace and conflict studies (PCS) is one of the major sub-disciplines of international studies (including political science and international relations), and has emerged from a need to understand war, related systems and concepts and how to respond to it afterward. As a living reference work, easily discoverable and searchable, the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies offers solid material for understanding the foundational, historical, and contemporary themes, concepts, theories, events, organisations, and frameworks concerning peace, conflict, security, rights, institutions and development. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies brings together leading and emerging scholars from different disciplines to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on peace and conflict studies ever produced.

Author : Oliver P. Richmond,Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190904418

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The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation by Oliver P. Richmond,Gëzim Visoka Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies, practices, examples, and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections, the Handbook offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities"--

Author : Rasmus Bellmer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031382185

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Peace, Complexity, Visuality by Rasmus Bellmer Pdf

Author : Stefanie Wodrig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315436722

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Regional Intervention Politics in Africa by Stefanie Wodrig Pdf

This book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory. Interventions are a performance of agency, but what happens if interventions are performed by forces that scholars have hardly ever considered as relevant agents in this regard? Based on a study of regional politics towards the crises in Burundi and Zimbabwe, the book analyses how these interventions shaped and changed the emerging regional interveners. The book engages political discourse theory, proposing an understanding of intervention as a field, in which multiple and heterogeneous interpretations of the violence, the crisis, and the future post-conflict order ‘meet'. It is not hard to imagine that this encounter is not harmonious per se but full of frictions. By making use of political discourse theory as a grammar for studying the complexity of an intervention, the focus is directed to the emerging subjectivities of regional interveners. This enables a view of regional interventions that neither reduces their subjectivity to universalist categories associated with 'liberal peace' nor overenthusiastically embraces them as the solution to all problems. This book will be of interest to students of international intervention, discourse theory, African politics, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.

Author : Nicolas Lemay-Hébert,Rosa Freedman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317202905

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Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development by Nicolas Lemay-Hébert,Rosa Freedman Pdf

This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and hybridization, their history, their application in law and legal studies, and their implications for thinking and rethinking legal plurality, the book shows how the concept of hybridity can contribute to an understanding of the processes that occur when different normative or legal orders or frameworks confront each other.

Author : Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319510019

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Shaping Peace in Kosovo by Gëzim Visoka Pdf

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book offers a critical account of the international missions in Kosovo and traces the effectiveness of fluid forms of interventionism. It also explores the co-optation of peace by ethno-nationalist groups and explores how their contradictory perception of peace produced an ungovernable peace, which has been manifested with intractable ethnic antagonisms, state capture, and ignorance of the root causes, drivers, and consequences of the conflict. Under these conditions, prospects for emancipatory peace have not come from external actors, ethno-nationalist elite, and critical resistance movements, but from local and everyday acts of peace formation and agnostic forms for reconciliation. The book proposes an emancipatory agenda for peace in Kosovo embedded on post-ethnic politics and joint commitments to peace, a comprehensive agenda for reconciliation, people-centred security, and peace-enabling external assistance.