The struggle versus the song – the local turn in peacebuilding: an introduction

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Mapping the Nexus of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

“…Indeed, one recent literature review of the 'local turn' in peacebuilding included Lundy and McGovern's research on transitional justice within a set of studies examining local agency in peacebuilding (others in this section were on youth masculinities, local peace committees and local zones of peace) (Leonardsson and Rudd 2015, 832); transitional justice is here just one of the many dimensions that peacebuilding involves. So well-established in peacebuilding studies is the 'local turn' that it now has its own critical literature interrogating how the local is constituted, stratified, mobilized and (de)politicized in theory and policy (Richmond 2009c;Heathershaw 2013;Mac Ginty and Richmond 2013;Hughes, Öjendal, and Schierenbeck 2015;Kappler 2015;Paffenholz 2015).…”

Towards More People-Centric Peace Operations: From ‘Extension of State Authority’ to ‘Strengthening Inclusive State-Society Relations’

“…In addition to which individuals the UN chooses to engage with, another important consideration is how the UN chooses to engage with societies (da Costa and Karlsrud 2012; Schia and Karlsrud 2013;Hughes et al 2015). If the aim is to ensure that the mission is locally relevant and sensitive to the needs and context of local communities, then the mission should take care not to structure the engagement in such a way that they influence the outcome.…”

“…However, there is still a lack of literature that aims to connect the critique of local peacebuilding with practices in the field (Hughes et al 2015). We want to further this scholarship by looking at the developments on the ground, in UN peacekeeping missions today.…”

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

“…advoga que os atores locais -aqueles que vivenciaram o conflito armado -adquiriram um posicionamento central na análise e na formulação e implementação de políticas voltadas para a paz (LEDERACH, 1997;RAMSBOTHAM et al, 2005;RICHMOND, 2005;ROBERTS, 2011;RICHMOND, 2013;HUGHES et al, 2015;PAFFENHOLZ, 2015). Por sua vez, as perspectivas epistemológicas subjacentes a esse debate variam significativamente.…”