The problem of peace and the meaning of ‘post-war’

Klem, Bart

doi:10.1080/14678802.2018.1468532

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“…Despite seemingly lofty goals, the track record of international peacebuilding practices has been disappointing when judged against the promise of building a stable, liberal and democratic state (Mac Ginty and Sanghera 2012). Furthermore, we have seen an increasing number of conflicts remaining in a liminal neither-war-nor-peace state, with recurring waves of violence, prevailing high-levels of insecurity, peace arrangements broken and ignored, commitments to peace reduced to the lip services of political elites or attuned to behind-the-scene elite bargains, and even arrested processes of state reconstruction with authorities under violent contestation (Balthasar 2017;de Vries and Schomerus 2017;Klem 2018;Maschietto 2020;Nilsson and González Marín 2020;Öjendal and Ou 2015;Raeymaekers 2013;True 2020).…”

Section: Why and How Is Peacebuilding In Shambles?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Why and How Is Peacebuilding In Shambles?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence

Öjendal

Bachmann

Stern

et al. 2021

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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“…More recently, scholarship has begun to expand on the notion of peace as seen from an emic perspective among those concerned. Beyond typologies, peace thereby also emerges as an aspiration and as a relation between actors (Klem 2018; Söderström et al 2020). Crucially, relational peace implies that representatives in peace processes do not occupy static positions but are embedded in constantly evolving networks of actors (Hirblinger and Landau 2020).…”

Section: Evolution Of Peacemaking Practice and Researchmentioning

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A New Local Turn for Track One Peace Process Research: Anthropological Approaches

Meininghaus¹

2021

Negotiation Journal

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This article argues for a new local turn in peace process research to analyze the perspectives and local embeddedness of peace process participants in Track One negotiations. Historically, peace process research and practice have focused on mediators’ strategies for coaxing belligerent disputants into signing agreements. Problems with the implementation of such agreements (i.e., peacebuilding and peacekeeping) are often faulted as the reason for their collapse. However, statistical data points in another direction and raises the following question: To what extent are the set‐up and understanding of peace processes themselves (i.e., peacemaking) implicated in the failure of peace agreements? This article highlights how the different experiences with which peace process participants enter negotiations, and the ways in which they operate at the “local” level in addition to the international diplomatic level, have remained largely unexplored for Track One negotiations. Offering a model that understands peace processes as intersecting, oftentimes informal networks, the article proposes that qualitative—for example, anthropological—research into peace processes can contribute to a critical peace process theory that takes these networks into account. To illustrate this argument empirically, the article draws on the U.N. peace process for Syria.

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“…Similarly, there are differing concepts for how peace should be built, ranging from the institutional focus (and arguably Western-centric templates) of the liberal peace model (Richmond, 2008), to agonistic approaches that accept conflicts as inevitable, potentially constructive of peaceful and just societies, and best transformed into non-violent relationships, rather than presumed to be resolvable (Klem, 2018). Connected to the agonistic approach is Lederach's (2005) concept of 'the moral imagination' as a key component of transforming conflict and building peace.…”

Section: Mapping Concepts Of Musical and Social Harmony Onto Peacebuildingmentioning

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Harmony

Parncutt¹

2014

Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia

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Harmony's semantic links across music and the social domain mean that when evoked in the context of music in peacebuilding, harmony provides both a description of musical action, and an aspirational projection of the desired social outcome. However, in both domains, harmony's foundational values and implied practices raise questions of how apt it is as a representation, tool, or goal of contemporary peacebuilding. This article seeks to answer these questions. Conceptual in scope, it examines the multiple concepts attached to harmony in the musical and sociocultural domains, and discusses these in relation to peacebuilding, illustrating some of the possible alignments and alliances with examples of cross-community music projects. It offers a heuristic for considering harmony and its values, practices, affordances, and implications from a more critical and nuanced perspective.

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The problem of peace and the meaning of ‘post-war’

Cited by 49 publications

References 73 publications

Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence

Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence

A New Local Turn for Track One Peace Process Research: Anthropological Approaches

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