Conclusion: Peacebuilding Experiences and Strategies of Indigenous Peoples in the 21st Century

Devere, Heather; Maihāroa, Kelli Te; Synott, John

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“…While the previous sections have elaborated on how complexity has affected peacebuilding theories and practices, as well as how the governmentality critique overlooks the challenges that purposeful agency faces in increasingly complex peacebuilding settings, this section has moved the debate on agency in peacebuilding forward by arguing that complexity can open up space for contesting narratives of purposefulness and enable the discussion to move towards a re-engagement with all agents in order to understand how complex scenarios affect and are enacted alike by implementers and recipients in interaction. Indeed, it can ultimately be argued that this also has major policy-oriented implications for actors, such as the UN, that are currently seeking to focus on designing alternative practices and beliefs, more recently conceptualized by some scholars in the context of indigenous communities (see Devere et al, 2017). If complexity allows us to acknowledge the limits of knowing and affecting the world through purposeful action, this can usher in a position of epistemological uncertainty that ultimately disarms those actors who may have dogmatic and even manipulative tendencies.…”

Section: Rethinking Agency Within Complexity-sensitive Peacebuildingmentioning

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Reframing agency in complexity-sensitive peacebuilding

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2020

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This article examines 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. Through an analysis of critical peacebuilding literature and a reflection on the UN’s peacebuilding practices in the field, the article first argues that complexity has been gradually replacing linear, top-down strategies with approaches seeking to draw attention to interdependencies, relationality and uncertainty. The article then suggests that engaging with complexity has critical implications for the traditional understanding of purposeful agency in the peacebuilding milieu that go beyond those of the governmentality critique, which conceptualizes the complexity turn as a strategy for extending control over post-conflict societies. Complexity is eventually conceived of in the article as a performative contextual quality that stems from the non-linear, co-emergent and unpredictable entanglement of interactions between actors in peacebuilding processes. This state of entanglement hinders the autonomous, purposeful agential condition of these actors in war-torn scenarios – in this article, peacebuilding implementers specifically – in which agency seems more and more restricted to its adaptive nature.

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Section: Rethinking Agency Within Complexity-sensitive Peacebuildingmentioning

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Reframing agency in complexity-sensitive peacebuilding

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2020

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Tides of Endurance: Indigenous Peace Traditions of Aotearoa New Zealand

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This article uses the concept of Ngā Tai Matatū (Tides of Māori Endurance) developed by Mason Durie, a leading Māori scholar, to consider three indigenous communities of Aotearoa New Zealand that have demonstrated endurance and resilience in maintaining their unique peace traditions in the face of opposition from both Western and Māori cultures of violence. The Moriori of Rēkohu off the New Zealand coast (known as the Chatham Islands in English and Wharekauri in Māori) have a peace tradition that dates back more than six hundred years. The Waitaha people of New Zealand's South Island (Te Wāi Pounamu) had no weapons of war recorded in the their historical memory nor among their ancient artefacts. The Parihaka community in the Taranaki region in the North Island Te Ika o Maui was established in the nineteenth century explicitly around nonviolent principles. All three peace traditions are currently being resurrected by descendants of the original peacemakers.

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Conclusion: Peacebuilding Experiences and Strategies of Indigenous Peoples in the 21st Century

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Tides of Endurance: Indigenous Peace Traditions of Aotearoa New Zealand

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