Studying Peace in and with Central Eurasia: Starting from Local and Trans-Local Perspectives

Kreikemeyer, Anna

doi:10.1080/17502977.2020.1786931

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“…It has become an ideological part of a notorious 'liberal peace' (Jabri 2013;Mac Ginty and Sanghera 2012;Richmond 2007). Peacebuilding in post-conflict societies is most commonly enabled and fostered through efforts that take place in warring societies in the Global South and are regulated, and indeed governed through norms and ideas formulated in the North (for an exception, see Kreikemeyer 2020).…”

Section: Peace War and The Centrality Of Violencementioning

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Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence

Öjendal

Bachmann

Stern

et al. 2021

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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This is a literature-reviewing and conceptualizing article introducing a Special Issue that is addressing the broad field of 'peacebuilding amidst violence'. We take as a point of departure that peacebuilding (as we know it) is widely failing to deliver on its promises. Moreover, the atypical nature and persistence of violence in post-war phases are further undermining the prospect of linear transition from war to peace as typically expected in peacebuilding ventures. We extend, however, our argument and claim that in spite of creative 'turns', the concept has exhausted its adaptive capacity, and both conceptually and empirically has few options left. We investigate the three possible, as we see it, remaining options, which all include paradigmatic changes, namely the closure of, the refusal of the failure of, and the reenacting of, peacebuilding. Although the 're-enacting' is the preferred way forward for the authors of this introductory article, it rather opens up for the ensuing articles presented in the issue than concludes of the desirability and feasibility of that path.

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