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Relational Sensibility and the 'Turn to the Local': Prospects for the Future of Peacebuilding
Wren Chadwick,Tobias Debiel,Frank Gadinger +2 more
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In this article, the authors present a collection of short articles that critically reflect on the "turn to the local" that has come to increasingly characterise peacebuilding discourse and practice.Abstract:
This edition of Global Dialogues presents a collection of short articles that critically reflect on the 'turn to the local' that has come to increasingly characterise peacebuilding discourse and practice. The articles draw on and extend discussions on the ontological and epistemological entailments and consequences of this shift that took place during a workshop convened by the Kate Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation in May 2013. Through an examination of the promise and pitfalls of approaches that attempt to engage in increased 'relational sensibility', it is hoped that these contributions will advance the debate on how to reflectively and critically reshape modes of engagement and interaction in peacebuilding.read more
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The paradoxes of the ‘everyday’: scrutinising the local turn in peace building
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors question and problematise the local turn's use of the concept of "everyday" in order to explore paradoxes and contradictions that indicate the need to think more deeply about the impact of the local-turn project of critique.
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Realising the post-modern dream: Strengthening post-conflict resilience and the promise of peace
TL;DR: The authors argue that resilience approaches are increasingly adopting the ethico-political sensibilities of critical understandings of liberal peace, which over the last decade have reclaimed hybrid forms of peace, open to difference.
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Intervention and Statebuilding beyond the Human: From the ‘Black Box’ to the ‘Great Outdoors’
TL;DR: The authors argue that the way out of this crisis seems to be found in the rejection of the aspiration to know from a position of a 'problem-solving' external authority and instead to learn from the opportunities opened up through the practices of intervention.
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Connolly and the never-ending critiques of liberal peace: from the privilege of difference to vorarephilia
TL;DR: In this paper, a critique of international interventions underlines the problem that interventionary strategies have denied the political, societal and cultural heterogeneity of conflict-affected societies, excluding the interests of the majority of their population.
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Reframing agency in complexity-sensitive peacebuilding:
Elisa Randazzo,Ignasi Torrent +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the growing complexity of peacebuilding settings is transforming the classic notion of purposeful agency into a non-purposeful, adaptive form of being in such contexts.
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
Michel Foucault,Michel Senellart,François Ewald,Alessandro Fontana,Arnold I. Davidson,Graham Burchell +5 more
TL;DR: Ewald and Fontana as discussed by the authors proposed a Content Index of Notions Index of Names (CIINN) index of names for the content index of the Course Content Index (CICN).
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Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies
TL;DR: A major work from a seminal figure in the field of conflict resolution, "Building Peace" is John Paul Lederach's definitive statement on peacebuilding as discussed by the authors, explaining why we need to move beyond "traditional" diplomacy, which often emphasizes top-level leaders and short-term objectives, toward a holistic approach that stresses the multiplicity of peacemakers, long-term perspectives, and the need to create an infrastructure that empowers resources within a society and maximizes contributions from outside.
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Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building
TL;DR: The Ethics of Empire in Denial as discussed by the authors has been used to argue against state-building states without sovereignty, and to deny the Bosnian Protectorate of the EU's Eastern Empire.
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Bosnia: Faking Democracy After Dayton
TL;DR: Chandrasekaran et al. as discussed by the authors made the first in-depth critical analysis of the policies and impact of post-Dayton democratisation in Bosnia, drawing on interviews with key officials within the OSCE and extensive original research exploring the impact of policies designed to further political pluralism, develop multi-ethnic administrations, protect human rights and support civil society.