Civil society, hybridity and peacebuilding in Burundi: questioning authenticity

Popplewell, Rowan

doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1432347

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“…For example, Smith (2014) has shown how national governments in Indonesia have led a project of hybrid state formation. Popplewell (2019) has observed that 'the global' in peacebuilding can be brought via different avenues other than via international peacebuilders. Therefore, global-local hybridity can exist independently of the so-called importers of peace.…”

Section: Hybridity Beyond the International And The Localmentioning

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From Hybridity to Networked Relationality: Actors, Ideologies and the Legacies of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement

Wilcock

2020

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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This article reflects on hybrid relationality as an analytical lens for peacebuilding. It narrates the evolution of 'the hybrid turn' and engages with common critiques of hybridity. It notes an additional critique of hybridity's implicit normativity. This article agrees that relational approaches have much to offer hybrid peacebuilding analysis and argues they could be strengthened with complementation from a networked lens. The proposed networked relational framework is animated with examples from Sudanese peacebuilding following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005. Overall, the article builds on critiques of hybridity and offers a networked approach as a supplement to new relational frameworks.

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Section: Hybridity Beyond the International And The Localmentioning

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From Hybridity to Networked Relationality: Actors, Ideologies and the Legacies of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement

Wilcock

2020

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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“…Since operational conflict prevention processes are essentially political, the concerned government(s) strive to keep control of it, notably by creating governmental NGOs, also called GONGOs. The existence of these GONGOs is of course not specific to women's groups (Popplewell, 2019), but by pretending to be independent and to represent women's interests, these organizations end up denying access and authority to nonaligned women's associations. One of the government's strategies has therefore been to organize consultations with these GONGOs, while sidelining independent women's groups, that might be more difficult to control (Interview 10, Bujumbura, May 15, 2017).…”

Section: Barriers To Women's Participation In Conflict Preventionmentioning

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Reinventing conflict prevention? Women and the prevention of the reemergence of conflict in Burundi

Féron

2020

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Based on interviews conducted in Burundi with representatives of women's groups, and in light of existing knowledge on conflict prevention and peacebuilding in divided societies, the article critically examines national and international efforts to prevent a re‐emergence of the conflict. It argues that conflict prevention initiatives led by women's groups, though often overlooked and sidelined, could provide important insights for improving operational conflict prevention models. Through their multilevel, low‐key, inclusive, and versatile activities, Burundian women's organizations challenge and complement conventional operational conflict prevention practices that are often ill‐suited to the needs of intrastate conflicts.

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“…One of the main issues stressed against the local turn in peacebuilding has focused on the inability of hybrid peace to practically and conceptually transcend beyond the dichotomised categories of 'illiberallocal' and 'liberal-international' which overlooks local power structures on the ground. For civil society, this has resulted to the detachment of international interventions from local realities and marginalisation of community-based organisations (Popplewell 2018).…”

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Frictional Binaries: Hybridity, Civil Society, and Liberal-Local Peacebuilding in Mindanao

Manaysay

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2021

Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia

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International and local civil society organisations have usually been identified amongst the key actors for the conceptual and practical development of liberal and post-liberal peace approaches. The concept of hybrid peacebuilding, for example, has highlighted the need to empower local civil society groups. Critics of the ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding, however, argue against the conceptual idealisation of hybridity. Using examples from Mindanao, this chapter contends that the debates on liberal-local hybridity can most meaningfully gain from asking questions not only about the processes of internationalisation and localisation, but also about the ways in which hybrid mechanisms are able to produce more or less stable outcomes. By turning into the agency of civil society actors, it suggests that the concept of hybridity, which is often represented using dichotomised categories (e.g. ‘liberal-international’ and ‘illiberal-local’), tends to oversimplify the conceptual intricacies and dynamic processes between top-down and bottom-up approaches. The analysis in the chapter aims to contribute to the discussions on hybridity by illustrating the manner civil society actors are able to negotiate their complexities within the frictional binaries of liberal ideas, institutions and resources vis-à-vis local practices, power relations and norms.

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Civil society, hybridity and peacebuilding in Burundi: questioning authenticity

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

From Hybridity to Networked Relationality: Actors, Ideologies and the Legacies of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement

From Hybridity to Networked Relationality: Actors, Ideologies and the Legacies of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement

Reinventing conflict prevention? Women and the prevention of the reemergence of conflict in Burundi

Frictional Binaries: Hybridity, Civil Society, and Liberal-Local Peacebuilding in Mindanao

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