A Case for a Normative Local Involvement in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Simangan, Dahlia

doi:10.1080/13533312.2019.1654380

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“…This has the potential to transform social relations in post-conflict societies (Volčič and Simić 2013). Consequently, international actors have started to emphasise the local dimension of stabilisation and conflict-prevention measures as necessary to sustain and build peace (Simangan 2019). Local stakeholders provide the means and the competences to efficiently pursue reconciliation strategies, and the aid of international agents can provide them with these tools.…”

Section: Reconciliation In the Western Balkans And The Interplay Between Civil Society And International Organisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the strengthened ethnic belonging inevitably reversed on local civil society actors. In fact, the local turn in reconciliation processes might bring about a resurgence of favourable conditions for conflicts as a result of the unsettled tensions (Simangan 2019). Throughout the years, civil society actors in the region have tended to emerge according to their ethnic affiliation, rather than expressing the interests of the mass (Mujkić 2007;Belloni 2019).…”

Section: Civil Society In the Western Balkansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the organisation stands out in the region because of its attention towards civil society in contraposition to other international institutions. Indeed, while advocacy groups in Kosovo have lamented a superficial involvement of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) because of the consultations it carried out with the local elites, thus leaving behind local civil society actors, prompting in them feelings of mistrust (Simangan 2019), the OSCE has always pursued a different approach to these actors. For instance, the Democratisation Department of the OSCE established an Interim NGO Council inviting NGOs registered with UNMIK to attend in order to allow the rising civil society groups in 1999 to take part in the process of institution building of the country (Strazzari and Selenica 2013).…”

Section: The Involvement Of the Osce In The Reconciliation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transformation and Development

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Section: Reconciliation In the Western Balkans And The Interplay Between Civil Society And International Organisationsmentioning

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“…Recent years have witnessed a growing emphasis on local peacebuilding among scholars and practitioners as part of what has come to be known as the 'local turn' in peacebuilding (Campbell, 2018;Firchow, 2018;Leonardsson and Rudd, 2015;Mac Ginty and Richmond, 2013;Paffenholz, 2015;Simangan, 2020). This interest in local dynamics came as a critique of the dominant 'liberal peace' model as a one-size-fits-all package of top-down interventions broadly geared towards state-building, democratization, and economic liberalization (Finkenbusch, 2021).…”

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Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions

Bourhrous¹,

O’Driscoll²

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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Although the need for local ownership of peacebuilding is routinely emphasized, the importance and the modalities of engaging with local cultures and traditions are not adequately understood, and the peacebuilding potential of local customs remains largely unharnessed. Drawing on extensive interviews with community leaders (n94) and farmers and villagers (n107), and using a conceptual framework that combines notions of the everyday and events that mark a rupture with the everyday, this article explores the opportunities that local people’s everyday interactions, culture, and traditions offer for peacebuilding in post-Islamic State Ninewa Plains, Iraq. In doing so, the article makes a theoretical contribution to the everyday peace literature by further developing existing typologies of everyday acts and attitudes of everyday peace. Demonstrating how everyday acts and attitudes of peace sit on a scale with negative peace on the one end and positive peace on the other, the article introduces the concept of ‘affinity’ on the positive peace side of the scale, to refer to an affective engagement with the other and to acts of getting to know, understand, and participate in what is important to the other community.

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“…Calls for stronger civil society participation in conflict resolution is a response to the critique of top-down approaches to peacebuilding in transitioning societies (e.g., elite-level negotiations). Top-down strategies are sometimes seen as a deterrent to peace due to perceptions of being political and artificial (Hughes 2018), such as in the cases of Cambodia, Kosovo, and Timor Leste (Simangan 2020). Nongovernmental organization and civilian presence in peacebuilding efforts addresses these concerns and contributes to making conflict resolution more acceptable and recognizable to those on the ground (Martin 2016, 400).…”

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Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping as a Transformative Justice Concept: Civilian Protection and Everyday Justice in the Bangsamoro

Raymond¹

2021

AJP

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This article explores the prospect of theorizing unarmed civilian peacekeeping as a transformative justice concept. Utilizing the principles of transformative justice theory as a framework of analysis, it finds that unarmed civilian peacekeeping produces an environment of everyday justice, thereby contributing to transformative peacebuilding. Crucial to this proposed concept of everyday justice is the ability of an unarmed civilian peacekeeping approach to form a link between the elite-level negotiating panels in a peace process and the grassroots constituency in a postconflict society. The case of voluntary and mandated nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in the Bangsamoro peace process in Mindanao is used to corroborate these conceptual suggestions.

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A Case for a Normative Local Involvement in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Cited by 6 publications

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Transformation and Development

Transformation and Development

Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions

Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping as a Transformative Justice Concept: Civilian Protection and Everyday Justice in the Bangsamoro

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