The myth of liberal peace-building

Selby, Jan

doi:10.1080/14678802.2013.770259

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“…Jan Selby (2013), por exemplo, questiona a sua validade desconstruindo o próprio discurso que sustenta a paz liberal. Ele argumenta que, a despeito de a literatura voltada para a crítica da paz liberal ter trazido à tona elementos extremamente importantes para a compreensão das políticas de consolidação da paz, o próprio conceito de paz liberal é minimalista e tendencioso e, em última instância, limita a análise do que ocorre nesse campo.…”

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Consolidação internacional da paz versus percepções locais sobre a paz: encontros e desencontros

Maschietto

2017

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Consolidação internacional da paz versus ABSTRACT This article discusses the local turn in peacebuilding and the concept of hybridity, highlighting the limitations related to cultural analysis framework utilised in this discussion. It argues that, as long as this debate is tight to the liberal peace (and the expressions of resistance to it), it limits the cultural analysis by excluding a broader discussion that includes alternative interpretations and perceptions of peace that are not necessarily related to the liberal peace.Key-words: peacebuilding; local turn; liberal peace. INTRODUÇÃOAo longo dos últimos 20 anos houve uma expansão significativa da literatura voltada para a chamada "virada local" nos estudos sobre a construção/consolidação da paz (peacebuilding). 2 Em linhas gerais, em suas diferentes vertentes, essa literatura

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Section: Os Pressupostos Da Paz Liberalunclassified

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2017

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“…Another strain of the 'critique of the critique' questions whether the liberal peace exists. Selby goes as far as calling liberal peacebuilding 'a myth' 5 while Zaum refers to the critique as tilting at windmills and relying on straw men. 6 Both authors underline the essential realism of the international system and how notions and practices of liberalism are crowded out by geo-politics and national interests.…”

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Just How Liberal Is the Liberal Peace?

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Ginty³

2014

International Peacekeeping

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“…Accordingly, analysis of peace agreement, their negotiation, and the detailed mid-and long-term framework of peace have come to be inseparable from discussions of international peace interventions since most peace negotiations are not merely local but receive extensive international input (Selby, 2013). The strong emphasis on top-down approaches has raised concerns about the viability and sustainability of peacebuilding and caused local critiques or even resistance to the failure to fulfill local needs ).…”

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“…The strong emphasis on top-down approaches has raised concerns about the viability and sustainability of peacebuilding and caused local critiques or even resistance to the failure to fulfill local needs ). The crisis of liberal peacebuilding is rooted in its standardized, universalistic pretensions and its concomitant failure to engage with local cultural practices of peacemaking and conflict resolution and with the manifold insecurities of everyday life in societies recovering from conflict (Selby, 2013).…”

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“…Liberal peacebuilding itself is critiqued as globally hegemonic project (Selby, 2013), wherein post-conflict societies are brought into conformity with the international system's prevailing standards of domestic governance or standards that frame how states should organize themselves internally despite the diversity and uniqueness of each post-conflict circumstance (Paris, 2002). Rather than representing local preferences and needs, the process of liberal peacebuilding is seen as the promotion or imposition of an external, hegemonic agenda that seeks to integrate peripheral areas into global norms of politics and economics, which provides powerful international actors with self-righteousness of direct or subtle forms of interventions and colonialism (Richmond, 2011).…”

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Beyond Liberal Peacebuilding: A Critique of Liberal Peacebuilding and Exploring a Postmodern Post-liberal Hybrid Model of Peacebuilding

Tanabe¹

2017

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One of the pressing problems with contemporary peacebuilding research is that much of the analysis focuses on the practical and technical challenges while paying little attention to the philosophical assumptions of those operations.Any understanding of peacebuilding is underpinned by philosophical frameworks as they shape and orient us towards particular strategies for peacebuilding. This paper makes a philosophical critique of liberal peacebuilding (the mainstream peacebuilding) and explores a postmodern post-liberal hybrid peacebuilding. The analysis claims neither the categorical rejection of liberal peacebuilding nor the exclusive reliance on locally-oriented peacebuilding. Rather, the upshot is the need for deconstructing dualistic view of either liberal peacebuilding or locally-oriented peacebuilding so that both external liberal actors and local actors engage in jointly learning and mutually transformative process wherein both liberal international actors and local actors look beyond peace constructed around their narrow and restricted conception and framework to create the meanings of peace that can interconnect the global and the local. IntroductionThis paper will make a philosophical critique of liberal peacebuilding and explore a postmodern post-liberal hybrid peacebuilding. One of the problems with contemporary peacebuilding research is that much of it has focused on the practical and technical challenges of peacebuilding whilst paying little attention to the philosophical assumptions of those technical operations (Paris, 2002). Truly, peace research is a practice-oriented intellectual enterprise that aims to transform a world filled with violence and contribute to achieving a more just and peaceful world (Rogers & Ramsbotham, 1999).However, any understanding of peace, conflict, and violence is underpinned by philosophical assumptions. Our philosophical frameworks shape and orient us towards particular strategies for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Therefore, engagement in reflection on philosophical assumptions we normally employ in an unreflective use can offer us an opportunity to make an in-depth analysis of how those committed to peacebuilding construct their approaches to the enterprise. Philosophical analysis will help us create new ways to look at peacebuilding and broaden our understanding of the enterprise (Thompson, 2000). This does not mean to deny liberal peacebuilding. Rather, critique of philosophical framework of liberal peacebuilding and Juichiro Tanabe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences, Kumamoto University. The first section introduces the basic ideas of peacebuilding, presenting the origin of peacebuilding and its core ideas. The second section critically examines liberal peacebuilding that has predominated the contemporary peacebuilding enterprise. Here, approaches of liberal peacebuilding and its philosophical underpinning will be critiqued. The third section will explore how postmodernism will contribute to post-liberal hybrid p...

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The myth of liberal peace-building

Cited by 90 publications

References 45 publications

Consolidação internacional da paz versus percepções locais sobre a paz: encontros e desencontros

Consolidação internacional da paz versus percepções locais sobre a paz: encontros e desencontros

Just How Liberal Is the Liberal Peace?

Beyond Liberal Peacebuilding: A Critique of Liberal Peacebuilding and Exploring a Postmodern Post-liberal Hybrid Model of Peacebuilding

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