Agency &amp; peacebuilding: the promise of local zones of peace

Hancock, Landon E.

doi:10.1080/21647259.2016.1253604

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“…On the other hand, the Rojava experiment represents a case where peacebuilding is occurring in a violent conflict. It is an interesting example of how local agency, which Hancock (2017) suggests is crucial to peacebuilding, can be translated into locally anchored peace processes. Several of the implemented features are working to improve social and economic situations, as well as participation in decision making and attempts at mediation.…”

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“…However, ZoPs in post-conflict contexts (the third time frame) are working on a more structural level to ameliorate economic and social situations that are often among the root causes of conflicts (Lederach, 1997, p. 8). To Hancock (2017, p. 260), peace zones are an important, yet underexplored, approach to peacebuilding. His point of departure is the issue of local ownership in peacebuilding.…”

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“…His point of departure is the issue of local ownership in peacebuilding. Hancock (2017) argues thatthe zones of peace model of post-conflict peacebuilding can help to address the primary problem resulting in the underperformance or failure of many peacebuilding efforts, namely a lack of sufficient local agency to encourage locals to take ownership of their projects and to work hard to ensure their success. (p. 267)Local ZoPs are essentially attempts by local communities to exercise agency vis-à-vis other local or national actors.…”

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“…Hancock ascribes this to agency and cohesion because local communities recognise that issues they are experiencing go beyond physical violence. Examples of peacebuilding activities range from educational and economic initiatives to parallel governance structures (Hancock, 2017, pp. 261–263).…”

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Exploring Peace in the Midst of War: Rojava as a Zone of Peace?

Nordhag

2020

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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War and peace are often depicted as mutually exclusive phenomena; where there is violent conflict, peace is absent. This assumption is problematic because it obscures cases where groups, networks, or communities create peaceful situations for themselves in the midst of, or in close proximity to, war. This article focuses on Rojava, a predominantly Syrian Kurdish area in northern Syria. Since the start of the Syrian war, Rojava was for a long time an island of relative security in an otherwise violent context. This article explores Rojava between 2011 and 2014 through theories and empirical examples of zones of peace where local communities in violent conflicts create spaces that are off limits to violence. The article concludes that because violence is not prohibited in Rojava, it cannot be considered a peace zone. Yet the case shows that peacebuilding is possible beyond minimising effects of violence even during a violent conflict.

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Exploring Peace in the Midst of War: Rojava as a Zone of Peace?

Nordhag

2020

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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“…Scrutinizing the so-far neglected importance of physical geographies for peace studies (for notable exceptions see Björkdahl and Buckley-Zistel, 2016;Björkdahl and Kappler, 2017;Hancock, 2017;Henrizi, 2015), this article adds the dimension of space to the debate on non-state agency in conflict resolution. As yet, peacebuilding actors and academics lack an understanding of the importance of where encounters between the state, the local sphere and international actors take place and why this matters.…”

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Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism

Vogel¹

2018

Cooperation and Conflict

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Current peace research has provided scholars with a range of conceptualizations of what peace is. Further, there is a substantial body of literature on the processes used to build peace – the how of peacebuilding. However, there is little research that examines the question of where peace and peacebuilding occur and how these spaces shape the possibilities of non-state actors to achieve their objectives. This article makes a theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging debate by sketching out the concept of peace spaces and applying it to the United Nations’ controlled Buffer Zone in Cyprus, the geographical home of inter-communal peacebuilding. To determine how geographies impact on the possibilities of non-state peacebuilding actors, the article focuses on three elements, specifically, on how the physical space impacts on: (a) inclusion/exclusion of participants; (b) protection/control through elite actors; and (c) its influence on the discourses and solutions that can be imagined. The article finds that local and international actors alike make a clear connection between the physical space and political viewpoints, which has both enabling and restricting implications.

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Local Peacebuilding

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Hancock

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

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Agency & peacebuilding: the promise of local zones of peace

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Exploring Peace in the Midst of War: Rojava as a Zone of Peace?

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