Towards a Security Governance Agenda in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Bryden, Alan

doi:10.5771/0175-274x-2006-1-22

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“…On security governance issues and peacebuilding, seeBryden and Hänggi (2007).15 Only ten of forty identified NGOs in Albania were deemed currently active(UNEP 2000).…”

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Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme’s Experience with Postconflict Assessment

Conca¹,

Wallace²

2009

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The environment is not usually viewed as the most important problem in war-torn societies. 1 Humanitarian relief, security, economic reconstruction, and political reconciliation all command attention as urgent priorities. Yet violent conflict does extraordinary damage to the environment on which people depend for their health and livelihoods; human insecurities in such settings have a strong, immediate ecological component as people struggle for clean water, sanitation, food, and fuel in a context of conflict-ravaged infrastructure, lost livelihoods, and disrupted institutions. Over time, more diffuse but equally important environmental challenges emerge: establishing systems of environmental governance, managing pressures on the resource base, creating administrative capacity, dealing with environmental effects of recovery, and finding sustainable trajectories for reconstruction. The scholarly debate over whether environmental degradation causes violent conflict is ongoing. But as the chapter shows, a growing body of scholarly literature and case documentation indicates that the failure to respond to environmental needs of war-torn societies may greatly complicate the difficult tasks of peacebuilding. At worst, tensions triggered by environmental problems or contested access to natural resources may lead to renewed violent conflict; more generally, failure to meet basic environmental needs undercuts reconciliation, political institu tionalization, and economic reconstruction. In the short run, failure to respond to environmental challenges can deepen human suffering and increase vulnerability to natural disasters. In the long run, it may threaten the effective

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“…On security governance issues and peacebuilding, seeBryden and Hänggi (2007).15 Only ten of forty identified NGOs in Albania were deemed currently active(UNEP 2000).…”

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Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme’s Experience with Postconflict Assessment

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Wallace²

2009

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“…Still, in the practice of peacebuilding, some ideas can be distinguished which are either more or less politically contested. For example, promoting security sector reforms (SSR) can be seen as relatively uncontested (Bryden and Hänggi ), whereas promotion of the responsibility to protect (R2P) is clearly more disputed (Chandler ).…”

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Introduction to Special Issue: Bound to be peaceful? The changing approach of Western European small states to peace

Goetschel¹

2013

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Despite a changed international political context in the post-Cold War period, Western European small states remain firmly engaged in peace policy. One would be tempted to describe them as "natural born" peacemakers. This article shows a different approach to small states' peace policies. Using a typology from the literature on the role of norms and ideas, it argues that the type of peace engagement followed by small states has changed considerably during recent decades. More precisely, a shift has occurred in their peace policies from normative to cognitive ideas. This may be explained through their closer cooperation with international organisations (such as the EU), loss of significance of traditional role concepts such as neutrality, and the changed content of peace policies. Two consequences result from it: firstly, cognitive ideas are less linked to historically deep-rooted identities and therefore more prone to change; secondly, there fewer comparative advantages accrue to small states in promoting cognitive ideas. Thus, though small states remain very active peacebuilders, they have become less "natural" peacemakers than they used to be.

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“…Critical security approaches also became key to the field of post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding (Richmond 2003(Richmond , 2010a(Richmond , 2010bBryden and Hänggi 2005;Shaw 1996;de Soto and del Castillo 1994). In a world in which leading Western powers and international institutions proclaimed the goal of emancipation, critical security approaches were understood to be the precondition for entering into a postmodern (Cooper 2000(Cooper , 2004 or Kantian (Glasius and Kaldor 2006) model of regional and global governance in which sovereignty was to be replaced, or at least compromised, by the domestic liberal responsibility of states, helped in this task by new international and regional political platforms and transnationally stretched nongovernmental organisations.…”

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No emancipatory alternative, no critical security studies

Hynek

Chandler

2013

Critical Studies on Security

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We offer a provocation -that we should stop appending 'Critical' to 'Security Studies'. Critical security as an academically and politically contested terrain is no longer productive of emancipatory alternatives. In making this claim, we seek to reflect upon the underlying dynamics which drove the boom in critical security studies in the 1990s and the early 2000s and its pale afterlife in the recent years. To support the argument empirically, the attention is paid to the role of emancipatory agency at the heart of critical security understandings. As we argue, the current state of 'critical' security theorising is no longer informed by the emancipatory impulse of the 1990s and the critical claims have been much damaged by the retreat of liberal internationalism and rise of non-emancipatory and post-emancipatory approaches. The critics that remain in the field thus articulate much lower horizons with regard to policy alternatives and conceptualise no clear agency of emancipatory possibilities. Ironically, 'critical' security theorists today are more likely to argue against transformative aspirations -rather than in favour of them.

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Towards a Security Governance Agenda in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Cited by 7 publications

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Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme’s Experience with Postconflict Assessment

Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme’s Experience with Postconflict Assessment

Introduction to Special Issue: Bound to be peaceful? The changing approach of Western European small states to peace

No emancipatory alternative, no critical security studies

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