1st Edition
Legitimacy in Peacebuilding Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations
By Franzisca Zanker
Copyright 2018
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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The book offers a critical analysis of legitimacy in peacebuilding, with a focus on peace negotiations and civil society participation in particular.
The aim of this book is to unpack the meaning of legitimacy for the population in peacebuilding processes and the relationship this has with civil society involvement. There is a growing consensus for addressing local concerns in peacebuilding,... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Unpacking legitimacy: An analytical framework of legitimate peace negotiations
3. Peace negotiations in Liberia and Kenya
4. A voice for the voiceless: Civil society activism in Liberia
5. Silencing the choirmasters: The Kenyan National Dialogue and Reconciliation
6. A multidimensional view of legitimacy
7. Emancipatory peacebuilding and civic agency
Biography
Franzisca Zanker is a senior research fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, Germany, and has a PhD in Political Science from Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
