EU support to civil society organizations in conflict-ridden countries: A governance perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Georgia

Lidén, Kristoffer; Mikhelidze, Nona; Stavrevska, Elena B.; Vogel, Birte

doi:10.1080/13533312.2015.1126521

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“…In this vein, peace-oriented civil society is always at risk of being used as a counter-image to the state discourse, and alternative spaces can be portrayed as dangerous to national interests and perceived as a threat to those in power. Such processes indeed are common and can be observed in different conflict and post-conflict societies (Hermann, 2009;Liden et al, 2016). Looking at these processes through the frame of peace spaces advances our understanding of how spatial politics impact on the abilities of diverse actors to engage in conflict resolution as it draws attention to the relational component of these processes.…”

Section: Connecting Geography and Peace Studies: Introducing The 'Peamentioning

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Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism

Vogel¹

2018

Cooperation and Conflict

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Current peace research has provided scholars with a range of conceptualizations of what peace is. Further, there is a substantial body of literature on the processes used to build peace – the how of peacebuilding. However, there is little research that examines the question of where peace and peacebuilding occur and how these spaces shape the possibilities of non-state actors to achieve their objectives. This article makes a theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging debate by sketching out the concept of peace spaces and applying it to the United Nations’ controlled Buffer Zone in Cyprus, the geographical home of inter-communal peacebuilding. To determine how geographies impact on the possibilities of non-state peacebuilding actors, the article focuses on three elements, specifically, on how the physical space impacts on: (a) inclusion/exclusion of participants; (b) protection/control through elite actors; and (c) its influence on the discourses and solutions that can be imagined. The article finds that local and international actors alike make a clear connection between the physical space and political viewpoints, which has both enabling and restricting implications.

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Section: Connecting Geography and Peace Studies: Introducing The 'Peamentioning

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Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism

Vogel¹

2018

Cooperation and Conflict

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Making Civil Society Sustainable: The Legacy of USAID in Croatia

Heideman

2017

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The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday

Vogel

2022

New Political Economy

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This article calls for a better integration of economic and socio-economic aspects of peacemaking efforts into critical peace and conflict scholarship and can be read as a corrective to the predominance of top-down and state-centric lenses in the examination of post-war economic recovery. As of yet, academic debates surrounding peace interventions have not adequately integrated the economic with the political, in particular at the level of the everyday. Most theories in International Relations that engage with the connection between economics and politics during and after conflictas well as the original notions of liberal peaceare based on the idea that international trade and market liberalisation reduce the chances of war between states. This neglects the substate level, and does not pay attention to the quality of peace that results. Considering the shift to intra-state conflicts, this article discusses the epistemological consequences of neglecting the economic everyday in conflictaffected societies and its implications for peacemaking, for both international and domestic actors. Shifting the level of analysis to the sub-state level and using an intersectional and inter-disciplinary approach broadens our understanding of peace and peacemaking, and how different segments of the populations experience them.

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EU support to civil society organizations in conflict-ridden countries: A governance perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Georgia

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism

Understanding the impact of geographies and space on the possibilities of peace activism

Making Civil Society Sustainable: The Legacy of USAID in Croatia

The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday

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