Rethinking the Conflict-Poverty Nexus: From Securitising Intervention to Resilience

Chandler, David

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“…These donors’ interventions carry out security and rule of law projects that ultimately aim to achieve donors’ geopolitical interests (Andersen, ; Jensen, ; Larzillière, ; Stritzel 2007) rather than building up institutional spaces for local participation, governance, and trust in justice institutions. At their core lies a specific security and development approach that ultimately ignores the complexity of the sector it intends to reform thereby reinforcing pre‐existing local biases against citizen participation and justice demands (Abdenur & De Souza Neto, ; Andersen, ; Chandler, ; Fernando, ; Jensen, ; Larzillière, ; Sedra, ). In the Haitian context, this state‐centric dimension that gives primacy to securitization and its reinforcement of local biases has been highlighted by Walby and Monaghan () in their analysis of Canada's aid programs to Haiti between 2004 and 2009.…”

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“…justice demands (Abdenur & De Souza Neto, 2014;Andersen, 2012;Chandler, 2015;Fernando, 2017;Jensen, 2010;Larzillière, 2016;Sedra, 2018). In the Haitian context, this state-centric dimension that gives primacy to securitization and its reinforcement of local biases has been highlighted by Walby and Monaghan (2011) in their analysis of Canada's aid programs to Haiti between 2004 and.…”

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Justice and rule of law failure in Haiti: A view from the Shanties

Marcelin

Cela

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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Since 1995, significant investments have been made in justice reform initiatives in Haiti. The results, however, have been meager. Drawing upon data from a longitudinal study conducted in Cité Soleil between 2008 and 2011, this article illuminates the short‐sightedness of top‐down reforms that fail to meet the demands of the population, leaving them to fend for themselves. In the absence of a viable justice system Cité Soleil residents have resorted to alternative, and at times pathological, measures to exact some level of “justice”. In this article, we contend that an empirically grounded base of knowledge of the demand side of justice and the promotion of trust‐building strategies that engage the active participation of citizens in the country are necessary to enact and sustain justice and rule of law reform. Such an approach will create a venue to channel civil society's demands, build political will and facilitate coordination between stakeholders and Haitian society for self‐sustained rule of law institutions and long‐term peace building in Haiti.

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Justice and rule of law failure in Haiti: A view from the Shanties

Marcelin

Cela

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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“…-Space‖ noted Foucault (1984: 252), -is fundamental to the exercise of power.‖ Territorial claims and the policing of state space has always been a key feature in the project of state-making (Elden 2007). The governance of non-state spaces within marginal areas-and the risks of their non-alignment with state interests-has become a key concern in state-based discourses of securitization (Chandler 2015). The ways in which the spatial arrangement of elements and processes in social-ecological systems shape resilience is an area attracting increasing attention in recent years (see for example Cumming 2011, Allen et al 2016.…”

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Resilience at the periphery: Insurgency, agency and social-ecological change under armed conflict

Ingalls

Mansfield

2017

Geoforum

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Armed conflict has played an increasingly important role in the transformation of key social and environmental systems at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Accelerated resource flows and environmental change dynamics intersect with conflict processes in ways that are substantial and yet inadequately understood. Drawing on research along the Pakistani border in eastern Afghanistan's embattled province of Nangarhar, we employ a coupled systems approach for understanding the ways in which social-ecological processes shape and are shaped by armed conflict. Based on field surveys, geospatial analysis of land and forest change, and participatory research among local communities, government agencies and military actors, we identify several causal processes linking conflict and dynamics of social-ecological change in the context of multiscalar geopolitical processes. We focus attention on four interrelated elements: (1) transitional modes of resource governance relating to armed militia groups and state intervention, (2) forest changes related to illegal logging and trade networks, (3) the erosion of upper-montane rangelands through encroachment and changing pastoral responses to conflict, and (4) significant land use changes in the agricultural sector toward the cultivation of opium poppy. Our research highlights the importance of center-periphery relations, the problematic nature of local agency, and the ways in which local social-ecological elements-here, particularly, timber and opium-become political objects within competing narratives of (in)security and ongoing state formation. Highlights  We employ a resilience-based approach to analyze change under armed conflict  Positive conflict-environment feedbacks drive system change toward threshold  State margins and porous boundaries serve as sites of innovation and local resilience  Opium and timber extraction emerge as politically-charged social-ecological objects  Agency enables resilience, intersecting problematically with narcotics and insurgency

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“…In the area of development and peacebuilding, it has been argued that the rise of resilience constitutes a way to adapt to the failure of previous international interventions in the 1990s and the 2000s (Chandler 2015b, Joseph 2016. Given the failure of these universalist and externally imposed topdown strategies (Prichard 2013), resilience operates a shift from the international to local (and national) governments, communities and individuals who are the ones that have to learn how to cope with complex risks.…”

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Resilience as the new EU foreign policy paradigm: a pragmatist turn?

Juncos

2016

European Security

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This article examines the rise of resilience discourses in EU foreign policy. The European Union Global Strategy (EUGS) refers to building state and societal resilience in its neighbourhood as one of the key strategic priorities of the EU. This article argues that the discourse of resilience that permeates the EUGS chimes well with a pragmatist turn in social sciences and global governance. The EUGS introduces resilience-building alongside an emphasis on flexibility, tailor-made approaches and the need for local ownership, capacity-building and comprehensiveness. More importantly, the new EUGS proposes "principled pragmatism" as a new operating principle in its foreign policy. While this might suggest a more pragmatic EU foreign policy, a closer examination of the EUGS discourse reveals significant tensions between a pragmatic and a principled foreign policy, which undermine the added value of resilience-building as a new foreign policy paradigm. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Rethinking the Conflict-Poverty Nexus: From Securitising Intervention to Resilience

Cited by 26 publications

References 35 publications

Justice and rule of law failure in Haiti: A view from the Shanties

Justice and rule of law failure in Haiti: A view from the Shanties

Resilience at the periphery: Insurgency, agency and social-ecological change under armed conflict

Resilience as the new EU foreign policy paradigm: a pragmatist turn?

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