1st Edition
Partners in Peace Discourses and Practices of Civil-Society Peacebuilding
By Mathijs van Leeuwen
Copyright 2009
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do international organizations support local peacebuilding? Do they really understand conflict? Partners in Peace challenges the global perceptions and assumptions of the roles played by civil society in peacebuilding and offers a radically new perspective on how international organizations can support such efforts. Framing the debate using case studies from Africa and Central America, the... Read more
Chapter 1 Overcoming Conflict: The Importance of Civil-Society Peacebuilding; Chapter 2 Civil Society Building Peace: The Development of an Idea; Chapter 3 Mapping the Peacebuilding Landscape: Policies and Practices of International Development Organizations; Chapter 4 Grounding Local Peace Organizations: A Case Study of Southern Sudan, With Dorothea Hilhorst; Chapter 5 Imagining the Great Lakes Region: Civil-society Regional Approaches for Peacebuilding in Rwanda, Burundi, and DR Congo; Chapter 6 Crisis or Continuity? Framing Land Disputes and Local Conflict Resolution in Burundi; Chapter 7 To Conform or to Confront? Civil Society and Agrarian Conflict in Post-conflict Guatemala; Chapter 8 Conclusion: Civil-Society Peacebuilding – What Does it Mean in Practice?;
Biography
Mathijs van Leeuwen is an Assistant Professor at Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
