The interaction between local and international power in EU police reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gippert, Birte Julia

doi:10.1080/13523260.2017.1398529

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“…In the cases of Somalia/Somaliland, Bosnia and Kosovo surveyed by this special issue (see Ejdus, 2018;Gippert, 2018;Juncos, 2018;Mahr, 2018), we see a mix of overt and hidden forms of resistance, which have worked to undermine but in some cases, also reinforce EU peacebuilding initiatives. By shedding light on the local contestation of EU peacebuilding initiatives, articles in this special issue reveal thus far unacknowledged frictions, both conceptual and empirical in EU peacebuilding activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In order to explain this, one might look into the material (e.g., electoral, professional, or economic) incentives that explain resistance by local actors or to broader cultural and/or symbolic explanations. In the first instance, one could situate resistance to the police reform by police officers in Bosnia as shown by Gippert (2018). In the second case, Mahr (2018) points at how conceptions of sovereignty shape local contestation in Kosovo.…”

Section: Resistance To Eu Peacebuildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The majority of articles in this special issue still rely on elite qualitative interviews (but see Tartir & Ejdus, 2018;Gippert, 2018). Hence, there is scope for more ethnographically oriented methods in the study of EU peacebuilding (e.g., participant observation) as a way to better grasp how these issues are experienced from the bottom up.…”

Section: Conclusion: Contribution and Further Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of relevance, in this case, is the impact of local actors. For example, Gippert (2018) shows that structural power of the local police chain of command is stronger than the power of the EU Police Mission to induce domestic change.…”

Section: Effectiveness Of Eu Peacebuildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, its power should not be underestimated; despite their low profile, the tactics of responding "in contractual, customary, and contextual terms to external peacebuilding efforts" (Richmond, 2010), can potentially be very successful. For instance, Gippert (2018) illustrates how resistance works at the level of police officers and the way they interact with EU peacebuilders in their daily jobs.…”

Section: Resistance To Eu Peacebuildingmentioning

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Resilience is “always more” than our practices: Limits, critiques, and skepticism about international intervention

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This article examines the response to the crisis of liberal statebuilding in conflict affected societies since the end of the 2000s. It shows how both resilience policy approaches and academic critical understandings are dissatisfied with the implementation of policies and programs, which seem to fail time and again. That is, there is a widespread perception that resilience is "always more" than what current approaches are providing. In consequence, it is assumed that international interventions require even more locally-sensitive initiatives that are in tune with local needs; new and better technologies, for instance, digital maps to assist practitioners in obtaining sheer volumes of information and accurate representations of space; and programs that are open-ended and flexible. The article cautions that by assuming that satisfactory outcomes are yet to come (i.e., that resilience, or a desired outcome such as peace and security, is still lacking), policy and critical approaches are reproducing and legitimizing failure, furthering neoliberal governance and cementing a profound skepticism. KEYWORDS Resilience; ownership; digital maps; peacebuilding; critique During the 1990s and 2000s, international intervention was conceived as "statebuilding," a process to guarantee a stable peace by the means of strengthening governmental institutions and consolidating a liberal democratic state; yet, towards the end of the decade of 2000s, most operations were not delivering (Paris, 2010). While just an anecdote, the UN advertisement speaks to the crisis of the theory and practice of liberal statebuilding: It was felt that international interventions were full of limitations and any attempt to achieve peace was deemed insufficient; so peace had to be continually attended, waged. Critical scholars helped highlighting the negative impact of statebuilding approaches, which resulted in costly and burdensome projects. These were engineered and executed top-down by external actors and had little resonance with local interests, experiences, and perceptions (for example, see S. Campbell, Chandler, & Sabaratnam, 2011). Accordingly, international interventions had to be reimagined against over-simplified, linear, technocratic, and Eurocentric understandings of development and peace (Autesserre, 2014;Mac Ginty, 2011;McLeod, 2015;Richmond, 2011). These critics argued for an emancipatory "hybrid" or "post-liberal peace," rooted in everyday settings and inclusive of diverse perspectives.Over the last decade, the idea of resilience has become central in diverse areas such as development, food, cyber and energy security, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction, climate change, and poverty reduction. Although it has never been a coherent policy framework and takes on multiple forms (Cavelty, Kaufmann, & Søby Kristensen, 2015;Joseph, 2018), resilience is generally understood as the capacity of systems to withstand and adapt to complex crises and shocks (

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The interaction between local and international power in EU police reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance

Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance

The limits of technocracy and local encounters: The European Union and peacebuilding

Resilience is “always more” than our practices: Limits, critiques, and skepticism about international intervention

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