Popular versus liberal democracy in Nicaragua and Tanzania?

Luckham, Robin

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“…Although this does make it possible to distinguish peace in Sweden from that in North Korea, the stream of critiques on what is called "liberal peace" by its critics (for example [33][34][35][36][37][38], see also [11] chapter 2) shows serious challenges with this simple equation of positive peace with some semblance of democracy. In a nutshell, critics argue that state capacity might be more important than democracy for prolonged peace [33], that the notion of democracy (or at least the models implemented in postwar peacebuilding) forces Western concepts and institutions onto non-Western states [36,37,39], and that democracy-promotion makes liberal peacebuilding focus too much on national-level politics at the expense of local factors relevant for peace [37,38,40].…”

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Peace beyond the Absence of War: Three Trends in the Study of Positive Peace

M. van Iterson Scholten

2024

New Perspectives on Global Peace [Working Title]

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Recent years have seen a surge in renewed academic interest in positive concepts of peace. This chapter takes stock of these developments, arguing that three trends can be observed. First, in a quest to make positive peace measurable, additional indicators of peace are added to the absence of war, mostly relying on existing databases. Second, in an attempt to capture the varieties of peace that resonate with inhabitants of postwar countries, authors rely on interviews with various groups to construct locally grounded notions of peace. Third, the ontological status of peace is reconceptualized. Rather than being a (utopian?) state of affairs, peace is said to be a process, an emergent phenomenon, or a quality of relationships between actors. The uptake of these three trends is that we are left with a variety of peace paradigms for local and international peacebuilders to work on. Consequently, special attention should be paid to concepts of peace that resonate with rising powers in peacebuilding and with populations in conflict-affected areas. The chapter concludes that the field of peace studies is maturing into a separate discipline, following a different logic than that of conflict studies, holistic rather than reductionist, bottom-up rather than top-down and focusing on long-term change rather than quick problem-solving.

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Peace beyond the Absence of War: Three Trends in the Study of Positive Peace

M. van Iterson Scholten

2024

New Perspectives on Global Peace [Working Title]

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“…13 Two of the most promising examples of attempts to create alternative models of democracy and of development were in Sandinista Nicaragua and Ujamaa-era Tanzania. They were swept aside in both cases through a mixture of external pressures and their own contradictions: see Luckham (1998). increasingly confident private sector and the extension of free market principles to an ever wider range of transactions, including the aid business.…”

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