Introduction: The Transcripts of Peace: Public, Hidden or Non-obvious?

Ginty, Roger Mac

doi:10.1080/17502977.2012.727535

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“…By remaining outside of the realm of control, and often beyond surveillance, there is a possibility that everyday peace connects to resistance to the central narrative of liberal peacebuilding. It takes the form, in Scott’s (1992) terminology, of a ‘hidden transcript’ that is not always visible to outsiders (Mac Ginty, 2013). Potentially, it also connects with that elixir in peacebuilding and development circles: local ownership.…”

Section: Everyday Peace As a Research Agendamentioning

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Everyday peace: Bottom-up and local agency in conflict-affected societies

2014

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This article is a conceptual scoping of the notion and practice of everyday peace, or the methods that individuals and groups use to navigate their way through life in deeply divided societies. It focuses on bottomup peace and survival strategies. The article locates everyday peace in the wider study of peace and conflict, and constructs a typology of the different types of social practice that constitute everyday peace. While aware of the limitations of the concept and the practice, the article argues that everyday peace can be an important building block of peace formation, especially as formal approaches to peacebuilding and statebuilding are often deficient. An enhanced form of everyday peace (everyday diplomacy) has the potential to go beyond conflict-calming measures to encompass more positive actions linked with conflict transformation. The article can also be read as an exploration of 'the local' and 'agency' in deeply divided societies. It provides a counterweight to accounts of conflict-affected societies that concentrate on top-down actors, formal institutions and conflict resolution 'professionals'. The apparent 'banality' of the everyday challenges us to think creatively about perspectives and methodologies that can capture it.

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“…However, this study considers such a perspective insufficient to explain the contrasting outcomes because social conflicts have structural and direct causes (Galtung & Höivik 1971). Besides, such acts of social resistance have both hidden and open motivations (Kaufman 2011; Mac Ginty 2013), it was likely that other more subtle factors explain the difference.…”

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Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana

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2022

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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For the first time in its history, Ghana held a referendum in 2018 to divide some of its regions to create new ones. Though the regions are purely administrative, the division faced resistance in some areas and not in others. This study combines qualitative comparative analysis with process tracing to show that the resistance occurred within regions with relatively high support for the opposition party, but only in the combined presence of (traditional) elites competing from either side of the region and controversies regarding claims to (traditional) political authority. Further, it finds a bottom-up mechanism of the resistance, evolving as the threatened interests of stakeholders grew from the community to the regional, national and diaspora levels. As in other African cases, this suggests that the sources of conflicts in Africa are not so much about ethnic differences but more about elites’ unequal access to political and economic resources.

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“…2 Moreover, contemporary studies on ‘everyday peace’ largely ignore feminist perspectives, despite feminist scholars such as Boulding (2000) and Ruddick (1980) contributing pioneering accounts of the significance of informal actors/institutions/interactions and the private realm for building peace (Vaittinen et al, 2019). This article provides a feminist critique of dominant understandings of ‘the everyday’ as a synonym for narratives and practices that are private, informal and largely hidden from view (Autesserre, 2014; Mac Ginty, 2013).…”

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Understanding conflict-related sexual violence and the ‘everyday’ experience of conflict through witness testimonies

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Demir²,

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2019

Cooperation and Conflict

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The testimonies of witnesses who testify before criminal courts provide crucial insights into the situated experience of conflict-related sexual violence. Witness testimonies highlight the complex realities and everyday lives of individuals caught up in situations of armed conflict. The evidence presented by witnesses can provide vital insights into lived experiences of wartime violence, and reveal the seemingly mundane strategies and tactics adopted by victims to cope with, survive and resist the violent and coercive circumstances of war. This article foregrounds conflict-related sexual violence witness testimonies as highly significant sources of knowledge of everyday experiences of conflict. It sets out a bottom-up, mixed-method approach for identifying and analysing the experiential accounts of those who lived through conflict-related sexual violence, while engaging with the opportunities and challenges of using witness testimony. Our approach unsettles existing notions of ‘the everyday’ in Peace & Conflict Studies as a synonym for narratives and practices of violence, justice and peacebuilding that are private, informal and largely hidden from view. Understanding witness testimonies requires conceptualising the everyday as an amalgam of formal and informal practices, as accessible through both elite and lay knowledges and as documented in both public and private (e.g. redacted) sources. It requires challenging taken-for-granted dichotomies that are frequently invoked to understand conflict and peace.

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Introduction: The Transcripts of Peace: Public, Hidden or Non-obvious?

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Everyday peace: Bottom-up and local agency in conflict-affected societies

Everyday peace: Bottom-up and local agency in conflict-affected societies

Explaining region creation conflicts in Ghana

Understanding conflict-related sexual violence and the ‘everyday’ experience of conflict through witness testimonies

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