Gaps in knowledge about local peacebuilding: a study in deficiency from Jos, Nigeria

Neufeldt, Reina C.; Klassen, Mary Lou; Danboyi, John; Dyck, J. W.; Bako, Mugu Zakka

doi:10.1080/01436597.2020.1761253

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“…This adherence guided the selection of data for consideration with specific attention to references to forms of systematic analysis. In addition, the research team was interested in contributing to the body of literature that includes the voices of local 4 or grassroots, practitioners working to build peace in their contexts (Julian et al, 2019;Leonardsson & Rudd, 2015;Mac Ginty, 2015b;Neufeldt et al, 2020). Interviewees were treated as reliable sources of information about the situations and cases they described.…”

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Conflict analysis, learning from practice

Rhodes

Akram

2022

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Conflict analysis is an essential component of designing and implementing peacebuilding action because it focuses on making sense of the situations where a peacebuilding action or intervention is desired. This article presents the results of an exploratory study based on semi‐structured interviews with 20 practitioners from 19 countries on four continents. Participants represented diverse organizations working on peacebuilding projects in conflict‐affected locations. The study focused on how participants (peacebuilding practitioners) gather and make sense of data (information) about the situations they face so they can make decisions for program design and implementation. Topics addressed by the study's participants included practice trends, methods of data collection and analysis, difficulties in gathering and assessing data, theories of change, and program or project assessment. The study concludes that the practitioners who participated mainly use informal methods to collect and make sense of data and do not make use of systematic approaches to conflict analysis.

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Conflict analysis, learning from practice

Rhodes

Akram

2022

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Knowledge and the governing of the interventionary object: Mali in the German parliament

Distler

Tekath

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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While studies on the role of knowledge and expertise have seen a resurgence of interest in International Relations and in literature on peacebuilding and security governance, little is known how knowledge enters the governance routines after the initial establishment of peacebuilding operations. Taking the mandate decision-making process of MINUSMA and EUTM operations in Mali in the German parliament as case for our explorative study, we ask how knowledge has entered the parliamentary process and how various epistemic practices and epistemic agency shape this peacebuilding governance since 2013. Informed by an object-centred knowledge framework, we argue that the practices and types of agency involved mostly ‘lock-in’ the governing of robust peacebuilding in Mali in much broader foreign- and security policies routines. Epistemic practices are not primarily concerned with new impulses or critical analysis, but with rendering Mali governable as interventionary object. The epistemic authority of the government is dominant and we do not find much evidence that hegemonic knowledge is challenged. Intervening agents do extract certain knowledge via transnational channels from Mali, however, broader knowledge debates or the involvement of Malian agents are missing.

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Deconstructing the local in peacebuilding practice: representations and realities of Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone

Martin

2020

Third World Quarterly

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Gaps in knowledge about local peacebuilding: a study in deficiency from Jos, Nigeria

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Conflict analysis, learning from practice

Conflict analysis, learning from practice

Knowledge and the governing of the interventionary object: Mali in the German parliament

Deconstructing the local in peacebuilding practice: representations and realities of Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone

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