Peacebuilding: the Shift towards a Hybrid Peace Approach

Anam, Syaiful

doi:10.20473/jgs.9.1.2015.37-48

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“…They are rooted in a desire for non-elitist peacebuilding, inspired by the realization that ordinary citizens can contribute to peacebuilding, even if their efforts are largely undocumented and restricted to particular geographic areas (Noma et al, 2012; Young, 2010). Despite the fact that hybrid peacebuilding is seen as a novel alternative solution capable of accommodating both liberal peacebuilding and informal institutions and actors (Anam, 2018; Brown, 2018), critics claim that hybridity may be used to legitimize liberal peacebuilding initiatives that might not be relevant to local realities on the one hand.…”

Section: Hybrid Peacebuilding Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Peacebuilding Constructs in Seke District, Zimbabwe

Chivasa

2022

Sage Open

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Since 2004, the formation of informal peace committees in Zimbabwe has signaled a change in the dynamics of local peace initiatives away from external elite top-down donor-driven interventions and toward a greater understanding of the potential of localized indigenous village and community informed solution-focused perspectives and initiatives. Despite the fact that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) aided in the facilitation, promotion, and enhancement of what was already in place, local peacebuilding efforts in Zimbabwe are not new, nor did they begin in 2004. Many Zimbabwean villages have had local peacebuilding initiatives such as customary courts for several decades prior to colonialism, but their notion of peacebuilding remain overlooked and under-appreciated. This study focuses on the peacebuilding constructs that have prompted ordinary people in the Seke district of Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe, to create ward-level and village peace committees. The results of an action research method involving a 15-member ward peace committee (WPC) and 27 male and female respondents are discussed in this study. One of the main constructs was that peacebuilding is a collaborative mechanism (with no end-point) with the primary goal of preventing violence through conflict transformation rather than eradicating conflict. Peacebuilding was further interpreted as everyone’s occupation, regardless of social or political standing, since conflict knows no bounds. This study contends that elites can collaborate through a hybridized mechanism with local actors and informal institutions to promote community empowerment capacity for local peace and development initiatives in Zimbabwe.

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Section: Hybrid Peacebuilding Theorymentioning

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Reflections on Peacebuilding Constructs in Seke District, Zimbabwe

Chivasa

2022

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“…This approach connects the liberal and local peacebuilding methods. The critiques of liberal peacebuilding and the need to adopt a more accommodative and emancipative approach have shifted the discourse of peacebuilding toward hybridizing the liberal with the local (Anam 2015). The liberal peacebuilding approach is often criticized for disconnecting peacebuilding processes from the local contexts (cultural values and norms).…”

Section: Theories Explaining Conflict and Peacebuildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Peacebuilding in the pastoral context can be implemented in three ways: through state intervention, through the use of customary systems, or by combining the state and customary approaches. The third category falls under the designation of hybrid peacebuilding (Anam 2015). This is often seen where state authorities empower customary systems to complement and compensate for the weaknesses of the state system (Beyene Kenee 2017).…”

Section: Theories Explaining Conflict and Peacebuildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These four institutional pathways (or mechanisms) toward peacebuilding, identified based on evidence from the field, generally conform to the hybrid peacebuilding approach (Ginty 2010; Richmond 2011; Anam 2015). Formal recognition of the customary systems through empowering elders would represent an effort to accommodate local perspectives toward peace.…”

Section: Institutional Arrangements For Peacebuildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pastoralists and Violent Conflict along the Oromia–Somali Border in Eastern Ethiopia: Institutional Options toward Peacebuilding

Kenee¹

2022

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Four theories are used to explain the causes and dynamics of violent conflict along the Oromia–Somali Border in eastern Ethiopia. Of these, political economy (greed versus grievance) and political ecology theories are instrumental in understanding the main drivers of violence. Politicization of ethnicity and the self-centered behavior of political elites have increased the complexity of the conflict. Fekadu Kenee demonstrates that peacebuilding efforts require respect for the outcomes of referendums on the disputed territorial units and revitalization of customary systems, among others. While customary institutions can resolve conflicts at least temporarily, sustained community dialogue needs to be part of the political reform to build lasting inter-regional peace.

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“…Another criticism about the hybrid peacebuilding has to do with the dangers of the romanticisation of the traditional approaches of the local, which may be inherently in opposition to liberal values such as human rights, gender equality, and democratic order (Anam 2018). Grenfell's (2018: 237-252) fieldwork in Timor-Leste, for example, has provided an account of the clash between "customary" and "modern" forms of spatiality in relation to violence against women.…”

Section: Hybrid Peacebuilding and Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Manaysay

Espesor

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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Peacebuilding: the Shift towards a Hybrid Peace Approach

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Reflections on Peacebuilding Constructs in Seke District, Zimbabwe

Reflections on Peacebuilding Constructs in Seke District, Zimbabwe

Pastoralists and Violent Conflict along the Oromia–Somali Border in Eastern Ethiopia: Institutional Options toward Peacebuilding

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

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