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The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding: The Liberal Peace Challenged book cover

1st Edition

The 'Local Turn' in Peacebuilding The Liberal Peace Challenged

Edited By Joakim Ojendal, Isabell Schierenbeck, Caroline Hughes Copyright 2017
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge
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Contemporary practices of international peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often unsatisfactory. There is now a growing awareness of the significance of local governments and local communitites as an intergrated part of peacebuilding in order to improve quality and enhance precision of interventions. In spite of this, ‘the local’ is rarely a key factor in peacebuilding, hence... Read more

The struggle versus the song – the local turn in peacebuilding: an introduction
Caroline Hughes, Joakim O¨ jendal and Isabell Schierenbeck

1. The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding: a literature review of effective and emancipatory local peacebuilding, Hanna Leonardsson and Gustav Rudd

2. Where is the local? Critical localism and peacebuilding, Roger Mac Ginty

3. Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research, Thania Paffenholz

4. The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity, Stefanie Kappler

5. Palestinian unity and everyday state formation: subaltern ‘ungovernmentality’ versus elite interests, Sandra Pogodda and Oliver P. Richmond

6. Poor people’s politics in East Timor, Caroline Hughes

7. The ‘local turn’ saving liberal peacebuilding? Unpacking virtual peace in Cambodia, Joakim Öjendal and Sivhouch Ou

8. National policy in local practice: the case of Rwanda, Malin Hasselskog and Isabell Schierenbeck

9. Local violence and politics in KwaZulu-Natal: perceptions of agency in a post-conflict society, Anna K. Jarstad and Kristine Höglund

10. Reducing fragility through strengthening local governance in Guinea, Christian Arandel, Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Marissa M. Bell

11. Rethinking justice and institutions in African peacebuilding, Goran Hyden

12. Beyond the local turn divide: lessons learnt, relearnt and unlearnt, Isabell Schierenbeck

Biography

Joakim Öjendal is Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Isabell Schierenbeck is Associate Professor in Political Science at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Caroline Hughes is Professor of Conflict Resolution and Peace at the University of Bradford, UK.

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