Peacebuilding and the New Regionalism in southern Africa

MacLean, Sandra J.

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“…New regionalism has seen a return to a spatial focus by examining regional space through direct observation, experience and contextual study (Richmond, 2000;Wheeler, 2002;Söderbaum and Shaw, 2003;Rossi, 2004). New regional theorists maintain that there are no static or definitive regions, but rather, that regional definitions encompass both geographic and socio-economic constructions (Hettne, 1999;Maclean, 1999;Dredge, 2005). Chandra (2004;p.…”

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New regionalism and nature conservation: Lessons from South East Queensland, Australia

Peterson

McAlpine

Ward³

et al. 2007

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Section: Key Conceptsmentioning

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New regionalism and nature conservation: Lessons from South East Queensland, Australia

Peterson

McAlpine

Ward³

et al. 2007

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Peace psychology is concerned about the determinants of collective violence, structural violence, and peace, and therefore invests significant intellectual resources in the attempt to examine the contextual, social actor, and process factors associated with peace promotion. Within the purview of peace psychology, writers have addressed such issues as social justice (e.g., Christie, 2001), gendered and women's meanings of peacebuilding (e.g., McKay, 1996;McKay & De la Rey, 2001), post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation (e.g., Lederach, 1997;Ryan, 1996;Wessels & Bretherton, 2000;Wessels & Monteiro, 2001), the psychological and cultural environments of war and peace (e.g., Langholtz & Leentjies, 2001;Pederson, 2001), conflict resolution (e.g., Sanson & Bretherton, 2001), and peacemaking and peacebuilding (e.g., Christie et al, 2001;MacLean, 1999;Montiel, 2001).…”

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Wahiduddin Khan and Peace in Contemporary Islamic Thought

Seedat

2006

South African Journal of Psychology

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Despite a resurgence of the view that the religious sciences and Islam are antithetical to the secular sciences and to secularised thought respectively, a reading of contemporary Islamic literature on peace and war reveals a great deal of resonance with peace psychology. As in peace psychology, much of Islamic thought is concerned with the theory and praxis of peacemaking and peacebuilding, and with the prevention of collective and structural violence. In the interest of encouraging dialogue between the religious and secular sciences, this article introduces readers to contemporary Islamic scholarship focused on collective violence, peacemaking, and peacebuilding. Special attention is given to one contemporary Islamic scholar, Wahiduddin Khan, and his faith-based ideas on peace promotion. Wahiduddin Khan's works on peace, representative of a socio-normative approach to social justice, are examined alongside a reading of Islamic perspectives on knowledge and human nature. By way of conclusion, the parallels between Islamic and peace psychology perspectives are noted, and a brief call is made for a study of the influences of faith-based approaches in current peace initiatives across different regions of the world.

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“…Finally, the recent establishment of a UN regional office in Dakar to monitor and respond to conflicts in the West African region from a sub-regional perspective is also a very promising development. These discrete developments, coupled with the emergent interest in the 'new regionalisms' portent well for the future (Maclean 1999, Marchand 1999). However, the challenges to translating these innovations into effective peacebuilding tools remain formidable -especially in light of the serious institutional and resource constraints in conflict torn regions.…”

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Making the Case for a Regional Approach to to Peacebuilding

Tschirgi¹

2002

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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Since the early 1990s, peacebuilding has emerged as a new agenda at the United Nations and among key international actors. Lying at the intersection of development and security, peacebuilding encompasses socio-economic, political, diplomatic, military and security dimensions. Currently, peacebuilding policies and programming deal primarily with issue or country specific challenges, as most violent conflicts now occur within, not among, states. Arguing that contemporary conflicts are actually transnational in nature, this article proposes a complementary level of analysis and action for more effective peacebuilding: viewing peacebuilding from a regional conflict framework and identifying regionally-grounded approaches to address the twin challenges of security and development. Specifically, the article draws attention to regional variations in conflict formations and dynamics, and to their peacebuilding implications. It concludes that a regional approach to peacebuilding requires new analytical tools, creative mechanisms of collaboration among local, regional and international actors, strengthening of regional and sub-regional organisations, and ultimately, significant reform of the current architecture of international development and security.

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Peacebuilding and the New Regionalism in southern Africa

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

New regionalism and nature conservation: Lessons from South East Queensland, Australia

New regionalism and nature conservation: Lessons from South East Queensland, Australia

Wahiduddin Khan and Peace in Contemporary Islamic Thought

Making the Case for a Regional Approach to to Peacebuilding

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