Towards better theories of peacebuilding: beyond the liberal peace debate

Heathershaw, John

doi:10.1080/21647259.2013.783260

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“…In a review of Mac Ginty's book International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance, Heathershaw points out the contradiction inherent in Mac Ginty's efforts to avoid essentialising either the international or the local, even as his theory of hybridity rests on a negotiation between predictable, even essential, roles played by both sets of actors: domination and compliance-seeking on the part of the international, and resistance and the generation of indigenous alternatives on the part of the local. 62 Third World Quarterly 863…”

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Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research

Paffenholz

2015

Third World Quarterly

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This article undertakes a critical assessment of the local turn in critical peacebuilding scholarship. It comes to the conclusion that the local turn is hampered by a binary and essentialist understanding of the local and the international, which are presented as the only relevant locations of power or resistance. This leads to an ignorance of local elites, provides a romanticised interpretation of hybrid peace governance structures, overstates local resistance and presents an ambivalent relationship to practice. The article recommends a more nuanced understanding of the actors involved in peace-and statebuilding, based on more empirical scholarship and a multidisciplinary approach.

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Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research

Paffenholz

2015

Third World Quarterly

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“…22 Heathershaw proposes to develop a critical theory that clarifies 'how the formal is intertwined with the informal, the international with the local and the liberal reform with the security imperative'. 23 Christie also presents two themes for further research in critical study: New Social Movements (NSMs) and a more detailed theorisation of civil society. 24 It is uncertain how follow-up studies on these agendas are likely to expand the scope of the critical scholarship; nevertheless, these proposals certainly show that there are still a wide range of conceptual and theoretical issues that should be further investigated and developed in the future.…”

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Seeking a new generation of the critical scholarship

Lee

2014

Peacebuilding

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“…In its final substantive section, the article asks, 'Where next for critical thinking on peace and conflict? (Zaum, 2012: Heathershaw, 2013. We conclude this article by highlighting avenues of research that might be fruitfully explored.…”

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Where now for the critique of the liberal peace?

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Ginty

2014

Cooperation and Conflict

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This article seeks to take stock of the critique of the liberal peace and identify what it has and has not achieved. It also asks 'where do we go from here?' The article surveys an agenda for future research and can also be read as a rebuttal of some recent literature that has attempted to shut down the liberal peace debate. The article opens with a quick recap of the bases of the critique of the liberal peace. It then outlines the 'achievements' of the debate and examines the failings and oversights of the original critique. Questions are raised about the epistemology and terms of the debate, and of the ability of critical intellectual projects to break through the material power held by mainstream intellectual and policy actors. In its final substantive section, the article asks 'where next for the critique of the liberal peace?' We conclude by highlighting avenues of research that might be fruitfully explored.

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Towards better theories of peacebuilding: beyond the liberal peace debate

Cited by 66 publications

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Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research

Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research

Seeking a new generation of the critical scholarship

Where now for the critique of the liberal peace?

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