Peace research – Just the study of war?

Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Nordkvelle, Jonas; Strand, Håvard

doi:10.1177/0022343313514074

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“…Formal cessation of armed conflict, that is state-sponsored peace, can and does regularly take place without including women or considering broader gender norms and relations. As feminist scholars have pointed out (Cockburn 2004;Gleditsch et al 2014), studies on war and peace often reproduce the gender gap prevalent in policy discourses and practices. However, in line with recent feminist scholarship, we argue that transforming violence, tackling root causes of conflict and achieving sustainable peace is impossible without a gendered lens and approach.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“War Is like a Blanket”

Al-Ali¹,

Taş

2017

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

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Despite the recent outbreak of violence and conflict, peace continues to be high on the agenda of the Kurdish political movement and many progressive Turkish intellectuals and activists. We conducted qualitative multi-sited ethnographic research in Turkey (Istanbul and Diyarbakır) and two diaspora locations (London and Berlin) to examine this mobilization for peace. Our analysis of these interviews shows how Kurdish feminist activists have been struggling to make the eradication of gender-based inequalities and gender-based violence central to the wider political movement for peace. Our interviews also reveal a recent convergence between Kurdish and Turkish women's rights activists where segments of the Turkish feminist movement increasingly recognize that "war is like a blanket" that covers over gender injustices. Both Kurdish and Turkish activists stress the intersections between the process of making peace with the state and the struggle for gender-based equality and justice. Thus, our research points to new openings in the conceptualization of and activism for peace, and women"s rights that bridge the deep ethnic and national divides the Turkish-Kurdish conflict has created. Our conclusions underline the need for a feminist perspective on violence and conflict that accounts for women"s rights activists" visions and strategies for a sustainable and just peace.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“War Is like a Blanket”

Al-Ali¹,

Taş

2017

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

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“…Much of the problem lies within IRT's scalar limitations, which we can explore by focusing on the disjunction between the interstate scale and the diversity of political economic processes and social conflict occurring at other scales. This disjunction is with no doubt closely related to IRT's development and consolidation in the post-Second World War years, a period characterized by particular patterns of growth of national development, marked ideological preferences and methodological nationalism although at that point debates on structural violence and positive peace already existed in the margins of the field of IR (Gleditsch, Nordkvelle, & Strand, 2014). These all resulted in what John Agnew famously described as IRT's 'territorial trap', a fixation with the interstate scale and the assumption that states are containers of societies, with politics played in a domestic/ foreign binary (Agnew, 1994).…”

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The liberal peace fallacy: violent neoliberalism and the temporal and spatial traps of state-based approaches to peace

González-Vicente

2018

Territory, Politics, Governance

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The liberal worldview is founded on two interlinked promises: the inherent capacity of markets to deliver prosperity and development globally; and the increased prospects for peace in contexts of interstate integration along liberal institutional and market lines. This paper takes issue with the latter, now often prescribed as a remedy against the geopolitical instability brought about by unpredictable 'populist' leaders. While decades of neoliberal integration have brought nation-states closer together and engendered degrees and forms of interstate equality within world market capitalism, populations across the world have fallen prey to the violence of markets and growing intra-state inequalities. In such a context, the contemporary rise of nationalism and populisms across the world is not some liberal order antithesis emerging from a vacuum, but rather a logical consequence of this liberal order, constituting an often reactionary 'counter movement' that cannot be tackled with prescriptions for increased market globalization. A focus on the everyday forms of violence fomented beyond the interstate level by processes of marketization demonstrates that neoliberalism's rescaling of violence and risk from the international stage down to the individual has resulted in the contemporary rise of illiberal politics and, indeed, new prospects for global peace.

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“…Civil war now holds a very prominent place in quantitative conflict research, but this is in many ways a relatively recent development (Gleditsch et al 2014). Until the end of the Cold War, the study of civil war was generally neglected in comparative conflict research.…”

Section: The Growth Of Research On Civil Warmentioning

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Civil War from a Transnational Perspective

Gleditsch¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

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Summary: Civil war is the dominant form of armed conflict in the contemporary international system, and most severe lethal armed conflicts in the post-Cold War era have been civil rather than interstate. Still, it would misleading to see these conflicts as purely domestic, as many contemporary civil wars such as Syria display clear transnational characteristics, including inspirations from events in other countries, links to actors in other countries, as well as often international interventions. Moreover, civil wars often have important implications for other states, including security concerns and economic impacts.This chapter reviews the growth and core findings in the literature focusing on the transnational dimensions of civil war. I focus in particular on how factors outside a particular state can influence the risk of conflict within states as well as some of the central consequences of domestic conflict for other states or relations between states. I conclude that this line of research has helped expand our understanding of both civil conflict and interstate war, and that a comparative focus on varieties conflict and attention to the possible transnational dimensions of civil war deserve a prominent role in future research.

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Peace research – Just the study of war?

Cited by 182 publications

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“War Is like a Blanket”

“War Is like a Blanket”

The liberal peace fallacy: violent neoliberalism and the temporal and spatial traps of state-based approaches to peace

Civil War from a Transnational Perspective

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