The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding: The Liberal Peace Challenged

by Joakim Ojendal (Editor), Isabell Schierenbeck (Editor), Caroline Hughes (Editor)

Overview

Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory. There is now a growing awareness of the significance of local governments and local communitites as an intergrated part of peacebuilding in order to improve quality and enhance precision of interventions. In spite of this, ‘the local’ is rarely a key factor in peacebuilding, hence ‘everyday peace’ is hardly achieved. The aim of this volume is threefold: firstly it illuminates the substantial reasons for working with a more localised approach in politically volatile contexts. Secondly it consolidates a growing debate on the significance of the local in these contexts. Thirdly, it problematizes the often too swiftly used concept, ‘the local’, and critically discuss to what extent it is at all feasible to integrate this into macro-oriented and securitized contexts. This is a unique volume, tackling the ‘local turn’ of peacebuilding in a comprehensive and critical way.

This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138293007
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/21/2017
Series:	ThirdWorlds
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joakim Öjendal is Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Isabell Schierenbeck is Associate Professor in Political Science at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Caroline Hughes is Professor of Conflict Resolution and Peace at the University of Bradford, UK.

Table of Contents

The struggle versus the song – the local turn in peacebuilding: an introduction The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding: a literature review of effective and emancipatory local peacebuilding Where is the local? Critical localism and peacebuilding, Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity Palestinian unity and everyday state formation: subaltern ‘ungovernmentality’ versus elite interests Poor people’s politics in East Timor The ‘local turn’ saving liberal peacebuilding? Unpacking virtual peace in Cambodia, National policy in local practice: the case of Rwanda, Local violence and politics in KwaZulu-Natal: perceptions of agency in a post-conflict society, . Reducing fragility through strengthening local governance in Guinea, Rethinking justice and institutions in African peacebuilding, Beyond the local turn divide: lessons learnt, relearnt and unlearnt,