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Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: Post-Conflict Consensus-Building book cover

1st Edition

Peacebuilding and Local Ownership Post-Conflict Consensus-Building

By Timothy Donais Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In the context of post-conflict peacebuilding, the idea of local ownership is based upon the premise that no peace process is sustainable in the absence of a meaningful degree of local involvement. Despite growing... Read more

1. Making Sense of Local Ownership in Peacebuilding Contexts  2. The Liberal Peace and the Ownership Question  3. Elite Ownership: Elections and Beyond  4. Civil Society as Societal Ownership  5. Bosnia: Ownership through Imposition?  6. Afghanistan: Peacebuilding, Political Culture, and the Limits of Social Engineering  7. Haiti: Ownership and the Political Economy of Peacebuilding  8. Conclusion: Towards Peacebuilding as Consensus-Building

 

Biography

Timothy Donais is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. His current research focuses on post-conflict peacebuilding. He is the author of The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia (Routledge, 2005) and, more recently, the editor of Local Ownership and Security Sector Reform (Lit Verlag, 2008).

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