Critical peacebuilding and the dilemma of difference: the stigma of the ‘local’ and the quest for equality

Mathieu, Xavier

doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1538732

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“…Both liberal and non-liberal postulates co-exist in this process of hybridization, shaped by global and local norms, actors, and practices. This interaction has been mainly studied as a contest of positions in which the premises of donors, governments, and international agencies merge and intertwine with the resistance and alternatives represented by local communities (Ejdus, 2021;FitzGerald, 2023;Mathieu, 2019), not always resulting in a reconfiguration of power relations (Björkdahl & Höglund, 2013). Three major challenges are currently at the heart of the debate: how to create infrastructures for peace in complex adaptive systems (de Coning et al, 2023;Odendaal, 2021;Visoka, 2020); how to integrate spatial analysis and scaling into the design of peacebuilding strategies (Barrera et al, 2022;Björkdahl & Kappler, 2018;Brigg & George, 2020) and how to manage and stimulate local agency and ownership (Donais, 2021;Mac Ginty, 2021).…”

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The EU Trust Fund for Colombia: Valuable lessons for hybrid peacebuilding

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2024

Development Policy Review

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MotivationThe European Union (EU) Trust Fund has supported the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement in Colombia. It represents innovative funding that goes beyond the classic parameters of the so‐called “liberal peace” — that is, imposing a standard formula of guaranteeing security and public order, promoting electoral processes through a party system, and fostering economic openness and free markets.PurposeWe analyse the planning, financing, and operational mechanisms of the Trust Fund to identify those elements that encourage or constrain co‐operation for peacebuilding; elements able to integrate and complement the agendas, actors, and dynamics at international, national, and local levels.Methods and approachThe article is based on over four years’ accompaniment to the Trust Fund, including an extensive documentary review, participation in numerous events and meetings, and making more than ten field visits to the Fund's intervention areas. More than 50 interviews were conducted with ex‐combatants, local leaders, and representatives of the EU, public institutions, and civil society organizations (CSO).FindingsThe Trust Fund has tried to build peace at local, territorial levels. It has proved an assertive and pluralistic instrument, innovating in inter‐institutional co‐ordination, political dialogue, and articulation at the local level. This has not only been visible strategically, but also technically by developing innovations with a high potential for adaptation or scaling up, for example: public access to project progress indicators, the widespread use of Third Party Funding to distribute resources to the weakest or most isolated CSOs, and inclusion of the territorial approach in project design and intervention logic.The Fund has, however, been limited by a context in which peacebuilding initiatives have tended to come from central government and donors, rather than from local actors. The government (of President Duque) was reluctant to implement the entirety of its commitments to peace: the EU delegation was equally reluctant to challenge the government over this.Policy implicationsThe experience of the EU Trust Fund in Colombia can provide valuable ideas to support peace processes elsewhere, to enrich the EU's position and approach to managing and resolving armed conflicts. New instruments, such as the “Team Europe Initiatives” or the NDICI – Global Europe, focused on multi‐stakeholder co‐ordination and international partnerships, can benefit significantly from lessons learned in Colombia.

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The EU Trust Fund for Colombia: Valuable lessons for hybrid peacebuilding

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2024

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“…Dado que el aporte de esta investigación está centrado en el aporte que desde Mercadeo Social se puede hacer a la etapa de postconflicto, a continuación, se profundiza en el Mercadeo Social como metodología de transformación; por cuanto según Pearce y Perea (2019) es necesario encontrar una manera de vivir juntos, y promover la transformación estructural y servir como mecanismo para aumentar la participación democrática, política y social como lo señala Phelan (2018) y contrarrestar el estigma (Mathieu, 2018) En este sentido entidades como la ACR (Agencia Colombiana de Reintegración) se han enfocado en la atención nacional e internacional para eliminar el estigma frente a los firmantes de paz para crear mejores condiciones, un proceso de postconflicto más inclusivo, prevenir un rearmamento y la repetición de violencia, con el propósito de convertir a los firmantes de paz en ciudadanos autónomos, preparados para reconciliarse con sus comunidades y la legalidad (McFee, 2016)…”

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Inclusión laboral de firmantes de paz en empresas BPO: Un aporte de mercadeo social.

León Guatame

2024

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Para relacionar rasgos de estigmatización e inclusión laboral de firmantes de paz por parte de empresasdel sector Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) seleccionadas, se realizó una investigación de enfoquecuantitativo y alcance correlacional, analizando las variables del modelo de aprendizaje social y el determinismorecíproco. Dentro de los principales hallazgos se destaca que los tres ejes del modelo personas,situación y comportamiento interactúan cuando se presenta el estigma, se evidencian algunos rasgos deestigma asociados con los antecedentes de la persona firmante de paz, lo cual permite afirmar que existeoportunidad para que programas de Mercadeo Social promuevan la inclusión laboral de personas firmantesde paz, involucrando acciones que incrementen su contratación.

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“…The goal of these concepts is to create diversity as it is seen that “it is diversity and not unity, which creates the kind of society in which you and I can most comfortably live” (Ward, 1992, 5). The main argument for these structures is that everybody affected by a certain decision should be included in the decision-making free from hierarchical power asymmetries, a radical horizontal form of local ownership that stands in contrast to peacebuilding processes which too often are led by outside actors and have difficulty identifying “the local” (Hirblinger & Simons, 2015; Mathieu, 2019; Simons & Zanker, 2014). Through decentralization and horizontality an anarchist agenda for peace would ensure that decisions would be locally tailored as they would be locally made, instead of generalized policies that are potentially distant from actual needs.…”

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Imagining Peace Outside of Liberal Statebuilding: Anarchist Theory as Pathway to Emancipatory Peacefacilitation

Rusche

2022

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Critical scholarship on peace has coined the term liberal peacebuilding and proven that it is unsuccessful, even counterproductive, in achieving that what it sets out to do—foster peace after violent conflict. The dominant part of this endeavor has been statebuilding. This paper adds to a slowly developing literature that starts to ask the question what an alternative to the reliance on statebuilding could look like. By employing anarchist theory, a new theoretical methodology is introduced to International Relations that allows to imagine forms of peace outside the liberal paradigm whilst preventing imperialistic claims. Such an emancipatory peace practice based on anarchism is envisioned as to build on prefigurative politics and direct action, strengthening autonomy, decentralization, and horizontality as well as challenge all structural forms of domination through radical forms of self-determination. Incorporating such an anarchist agenda offers one perspective on what fostering peace outside decontextualized and imposed liberal nation states could be. I argue that challenging statebuilding foreshadows a greater implication an anarchist research agenda promotes, namely, the need to move away from peace building toward emancipatory forms of peace facilitation.

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Critical peacebuilding and the dilemma of difference: the stigma of the ‘local’ and the quest for equality

Cited by 12 publications

References 44 publications

The EU Trust Fund for Colombia: Valuable lessons for hybrid peacebuilding

The EU Trust Fund for Colombia: Valuable lessons for hybrid peacebuilding

Inclusión laboral de firmantes de paz en empresas BPO: Un aporte de mercadeo social.

Imagining Peace Outside of Liberal Statebuilding: Anarchist Theory as Pathway to Emancipatory Peacefacilitation

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