Military Visions of Peace

Scholten, Gijsbert M. van Iterson

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“…The inequities that sometimes mark top-down approaches to peace led to the so-called “local turn,” which explores ways in which local communities work for peace in their day-to-day lives. Moving away from the activities of large international organizations, these studies instead focus on local ownership of peacebuilding, developing local civil societies, and the mundane ways peace can manifest and endure in local settings (Brewer, 2010; Funk, 2012; Justino et al, 2013; Lederach, 1997; Lee, 2021; Mac Ginty & Richmond, 2013; Van Iterson Scholten, 2020).…”

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Local Ethics and Conflicts of Interest: Living Between Bottom-Up from Top-Down Peace in Provincial Egypt

Friesen

2024

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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This article proposes and explores a fundamental difference between top-down and bottom-up understandings of peace and conflict. Set in the provincial Egyptian city of Beni Suef, the article first examines three major contemporary conflicts (revolutionary conflict, sectarian conflict, and economic conflict), which have most colored my interlocutors’ lives. Next, the article employs ethnographic data collected in Beni Suef between 2011 and 2018 in order to investigate how ordinary Egyptians have experienced the different conflicts in their day-to-day lives. I argue that, while the structural conflicts that most shape life in provincial Egypt are driven by overarching geopolitical, political, and economic interests, the majority of my interlocutors’ everyday lives centered on local ethics. The basic divergence between top-down interests and local ethics, I conclude, explains the inherent lack of scalability and inescapable disconnect between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peace and conflict.

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Local Ethics and Conflicts of Interest: Living Between Bottom-Up from Top-Down Peace in Provincial Egypt

Friesen

2024

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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“…How interveners understand their identities shapes their ‘visions’ of peace. If this vision differs from that of the conflict-affected society in which they are working, this can undermine local attempts at peacebuilding, encourage interveners to overlook locally legitimate peacebuilding processes or even generate tensions between them and local communities (Van Iterson Scholten, 2020).…”

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How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?

Wallis¹

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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What happens if international interveners feel emotions that they consider unsanctioned, unwanted and unprofessional? What if they enact and manage their emotions in ways that they – or others – deem unacceptable? If international interveners face anxiety about being ‘too emotional’ or not feeling or expressing the ‘right’ emotions, does this challenge their sense of identity? And what consequences could this have for peacebuilding and the conflict-affected population in which they were working? Building on the growing body of critical peace and conflict scholarship that has analysed international interveners at the micro-scale, this article analyses how individual interveners’ emotional and embodied experiences influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding. Based on a discourse analysis of the memoirs of 10 international interveners, this article identifies two primary interpretive repertoires that the interveners employed and argues that they generated two ideal-type subject positions: the intervener as objective, rational, technocratic ‘expert’ and the intervener as irrational, fallible, vulnerable ‘human’. These subject positions determined the feeling rules that the interveners followed and the dilemmas they faced. This, in turn, affected how the interveners perceived the conflict-affected societies in which they were working, and how they understood and practised peacebuilding.

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Military Visions of Peace

Cited by 2 publications

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Local Ethics and Conflicts of Interest: Living Between Bottom-Up from Top-Down Peace in Provincial Egypt

Local Ethics and Conflicts of Interest: Living Between Bottom-Up from Top-Down Peace in Provincial Egypt

How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?

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