The Dialogic Mediation: The Pragmatic Approach

Lehti, Marko

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“…There is a growing agreement among peacebuilding, human rights, and development practitioners on the importance of inclusivity in peace processes (Bell, 2019). With inclusivity, peace is built through “a dynamic, co-constituted, emergent and necessarily adaptive process that includes multiple knowledges and actors (Danielsson, 2020: 1087).” Practitioners and peace researchers link inclusive processes with greater ownership (Barnes, 2002; Donais and McCandless, 2017; Vogelaar, 2018), legitimacy (Arnault, 2014; Barnes, 2002; Belloni, 2001; Lehti, 2019; Nilsson, 2012), more resilient social contracts (Zahar and McCandless, 2020), and other attributes linked to sustainable peace. Given these findings in research, inclusivity has emerged from a buzzword into a policy mainstreamed in various peacebuilding programs (Bell, 2019; Hellmüller, 2019b; Paffenholz and Zartman, 2019).…”

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The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation

Pring¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Research on resistance to the inclusion of civil society in peace mediation focuses on armed parties and elites as sites of resistance. Such focus grounds policies that prescribe various strategies and process designs that mediators could employ. The mediation of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in South Sudan from 2012 to 2015 featured such strategies and attempts at various formats, including strong leverage from South Sudan’s neighbors and top development partners. However, civil society’s inclusion did not fully materialize, and armed clashes continued. Examining this mediation process, this article examines two structural challenges to civil society inclusion under-examined in mediation research. First, divisions within civil society can perpetuate divisions among warring parties and hinder the expected benefits of civil society inclusion. Second, the norms of consent and protecting lives considered definitional in peace mediation prioritize armed parties over civil society, limiting mediators’ ability to promote the latter’s inclusion and potentially encouraging further violence.

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The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation

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2022

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The Dialogic Mediation: The Pragmatic Approach

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The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation

The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation

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