Everyday Life Peacebuilding

Brewer, John D.; Hayes, Bernadette C.; Teeney, Francis; Dudgeon, Katrin; Mueller-Hirth, Natascha; Wijesinghe, Shirley Lal

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“…Such uses have a tendency either to apply the ‘everyday’ label to politically motivated activities at the local level, or to interpret actions at the local level (no matter how motivated) as political. Both moves reflect what Brewer et al (2018: 211) described as ‘the disciplinary closure through which the concept of everyday life is understood’ within international relations (IR), in that they have a tendency to deploy the everyday via a political lens; shorn of its ‘everyday-ness’, which I define here as the pre-political character of emergent practice (this will be revisited below).…”

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“…To accomplish this task the article first reviewed some of the recent peacebuilding literature dealing with ‘the everyday’ and showed just how often those uses display a tendency either (a) to apply the ‘everyday’ label to politically motivated activities at the local level and, thus, to consider ‘the everyday’ largely as a scalar referent; or (b) to interpret actions at the local level (no matter how motivated) as agentic political acts. I noted that there are some approaches which have instead made reference to conceptions of ‘the everyday’ as it has been developed outside IR, but that these latter uses have, for the most part, been overwhelmed by the former due to the ‘disciplinary closure’ Brewer et al (2018: 2011) identify.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While this is not surprising given that most of those cited above are IR scholars and, as such, consistently turn their focus to the local politics of peacebuilding, it also highlights the ‘disciplinary closure’ noted by Brewer et al (2018) and why that closure may not be helpful to the field of peacebuilding or to our theorization of everyday peace. If the goal of these scholars is also to contribute to peace studies, to critical peacebuilding, or to the theorization of everyday peacebuilding generally, then surely it is important to note that the acts they are trying to frame as part of ‘the everyday’ were never really ‘everyday’ acts at all, but simply political acts on a local or micro scale.…”

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confidence: 91%

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Preserving the everyday: Pre-political agency in peacebuilding theory

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Quite a lot of recent peacebuilding scholarship has deployed the concept of ‘the everyday’. In an extension of the local turn’s emphasis on agency and resistance, much of this scholarship interprets the everyday as inherently a site of politics. It does so either by interpreting every act (no matter how motivated) as an agentic political act, or by equating agentic political acts (at the local level) with the quotidian activities which define the everyday. This article argues, however, that representing the everyday in this way interprets both forms of activity in ways which have critical implications for peacebuilding theory, because both moves inadvertently strip everyday acts of the emergent creativity and innovation inherent to ‘everyday-ness’. Alternative understandings of and engagement with different forms of agency would encourage peace scholars to acknowledge the overtly political nature of peace projects and so to reserve ‘the everyday’ label for pre-political forms of action which may contribute to peace, but in a more unintentional, organic or emergent fashion. This is not to argue that everyday acts are a-political or non-political, but only that they do not have political motivations and are not themselves products of conscious will to power, or even to peace itself.

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“…The final area this article addresses is the relationship between haunting and the traumatic presence of the unresolved past. In their recent work, Brewer et al (2018) argue that sustained communal violence has a haunting imprint on everyday life in the form of ‘brutalising’ mundane common sense language, ideas and beliefs; the brutalisation of everyday social practices and behaviours; and the brutalisation of everyday cognitive maps and frames through which sense is made of the world. In this part of the article, for reasons for space and conceptual clarity, I have adopted a narrower focus in relation to haunting and the traumatic presence of the impact of conflict: the prevalence of conflict-related mental health problems and transgenerational trauma.…”

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Haunting and transitional justice: On lives, landscapes and unresolved pasts

Lawther

2020

International Review of Victimology

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This article explores practices of haunting and ghosting after conflict-related loss. This is not to suggest a focus on the occult or the paranormal, but to use these phenomena as a prism through which to understand the intersection between unresolved pasts and the transmission of trauma post-conflict. As Michael Levan notes, trauma lingers ‘unexorcisably in the places of its perpetration, in the bodies of those affected, in the eyes of the witnesses, and in the politics of memory’. The ghost, according to Avery Gordon ‘is the principal form by which something lost or invisible or seemingly not there makes itself known or apparent to us’. In this article I argue for three conceptualisations of haunting when past traumas remain unaddressed: the haunting of lost lives, the haunting of landscape, and the haunting presence of the unresolved past. The article focuses on Northern Ireland, a post-conflict jurisdiction described as being haunted by a ‘conflict calendar in which every day is an anniversary’ and extensive fieldwork with victims and survivors of the conflict. The article concludes by arguing that the presence of ghosts and the experience of haunting represent a ‘call to action’ in the quest to deal with a legacy of violent conflict and human rights abuses.

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Entendiendo la reincorporación colectiva de excombatientes de las FARC-EP desde la perspectiva de los mundos sociales

Jaramillo

2023

Rev. colomb. soc.

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En este articulo analizo el proceso de reincorporación colectiva de los exmiembros de las FARC-EP bajo la perspectiva de los mundos sociales. El término mundos sociales surge como una perspectiva sociológica desarrollada por la Escuela de Chicago, que entiende los procesos de cambio social a través de la comprensión de las interdependencias y esquemas compartidos entre diferentes grupos sociales que se transforman por sí mismos a través de nuevas formas de comunicación y relacionamiento. Para esto, exploré las contribuciones de los exintegrantes de las FARC-EP al proceso de paz en Colombia y las implicaciones que tiene su interacción con otros mundos sociales en su adecuada reincorporación social, política y económica. Bajo una etnografía multisituada, durante 2018 y 2019 en tres territorios de Colombia (Agua Bonita, Llano Grande y San José de León), exploré las prácticas locales de los exmiembros de las FARC-EP y su relacionamiento con entidades nacionales, internacionales y con comunidades aledañas. Para esta investigación llevé a cabo 58 entrevistas con exintegrantes de las FARC-EP y 12 con comunidades vecinas, las cuales fueron complementadas con observación participante y diarios de campo. Identifiqué que las prácticas colectivas de reincorporación ofrecen nuevas formas de entender los mundos sociales bajo un equilibrio de poderes y nuevos liderazgos que favorecen procesos de autosostenibilidad en los territorios. Al valorar la agencia y emprendimiento local se favorecen dinámicas de reincorporación que benefician la reconciliación y la paz territorial. Sin embargo, la manipulación de recursos y poderes sociales puede convertir a los excombatientes de las FARC-EP en otro actor pasivo de la sociedad, en el que su mundo social termina siendo absorbido por otros actores que tienen más poder y control social en los territorios. Si no se valoran las iniciativas colectivas de los exintegrantes de las FARC-EP se corre el riesgo de que sigamos limitados a estructuras hegemónicas y dominantes que minimizan iniciativas locales de paz y, por ende, la participación de los exmiembros de las FARC-EP en la construcción de la paz en Colombia.

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Everyday Life Peacebuilding

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Preserving the everyday: Pre-political agency in peacebuilding theory

Preserving the everyday: Pre-political agency in peacebuilding theory

Haunting and transitional justice: On lives, landscapes and unresolved pasts

Entendiendo la reincorporación colectiva de excombatientes de las FARC-EP desde la perspectiva de los mundos sociales

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