Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution: Peacebuilding and Friction : Global and Local Encounters in Post-Conflict Societies (2016, Hardcover) by read ebook MOBI, DOC, TXT
9781138937512 1138937517 This book aims to understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building a sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power relations. This volume develops the concept of friction to better analyse the interplay between global ideas, actors, and practices, and their local counterparts. The chapters examine efforts undertaken to promote sustainable peace in a variety of locations, such as Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone. These case analyses provide a nuanced understanding not simply of local processes, or of the hybrid or mixed agencies, ideas, and processes that are generated, but of the complex interactions that unfold between all of these elements in the context of peacebuilding intervention. The analyses demonstrate how the ambivalent relationship between global and local actors leads to unintended and sometimes counterproductive results of peacebuilding interventions. The approach of this book, with its focus on friction as a conceptual tool, advances the peacebuilding research agenda and adds to two ongoing debates in the peacebuilding field; the debate on hybridity, and the debate on local agency and local ownership. In analysing frictional encounters this volume prepares the ground for a better understanding of the mixed impact peace initiatives have on post-conflict societies. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies, and international relations in general.", This book aims to understand the processes of and the outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power relations. During peacebuilding interventions, formal and informal, external and internal, state- and non-state actors, struggle for influence. This book aims to unpack the interplay between global ideas, actors and practices and their local counterparts. It explores the precariousness and unpredictability of peacebuilding by examining the friction that occurs where the global and local interact. Analysing these frictional encounters prepares the ground for a better understanding of the mixed impact peace initiatives have on post-conflict societies. The approach of this book also unravels the question of agency by unsettling the boundaries between the global and the local and examining the interaction between the two. The volume develops the concept of friction to question the assumptions embedded in global-local encounters, and adapts this concept and applies it to the field of peacebuilding. Friction is understood as an unexpected and generative process of global interaction that allows creative re-imaginations as an organic response to awkward engagements . Here, friction is used to illuminate how new political, social, and cultural dynamics are produced in peacebuilding sites, but it is also forwarded as a way to understand how global ideas pertaining to peace are charged and changed by their encounters with post-conflict realities. It thus understands friction as a process triggered by global-local encounters rather than as an outcome of such frictional peacebuilding encounters. Further, the eventual, often hybrid outcome, is not necessarily a negative development for the concerned societies, as the process of friction can facilitate change for the better. The chapters analyse societies emerging from violent conflicts and the peacebuilding efforts undertaken to promote sustainable peace. Together, they clearly demonstrate the ambivalent and complex relationship between global and local actors as well as their short- and long-term reciprocal impacts and thereby uncover the unintended, unexpected and sometimes even counter-productive hybrid results of peacebuilding interventions. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies and IR in general."
9781138937512 1138937517 This book aims to understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building a sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power relations. This volume develops the concept of friction to better analyse the interplay between global ideas, actors, and practices, and their local counterparts. The chapters examine efforts undertaken to promote sustainable peace in a variety of locations, such as Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone. These case analyses provide a nuanced understanding not simply of local processes, or of the hybrid or mixed agencies, ideas, and processes that are generated, but of the complex interactions that unfold between all of these elements in the context of peacebuilding intervention. The analyses demonstrate how the ambivalent relationship between global and local actors leads to unintended and sometimes counterproductive results of peacebuilding interventions. The approach of this book, with its focus on friction as a conceptual tool, advances the peacebuilding research agenda and adds to two ongoing debates in the peacebuilding field; the debate on hybridity, and the debate on local agency and local ownership. In analysing frictional encounters this volume prepares the ground for a better understanding of the mixed impact peace initiatives have on post-conflict societies. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies, and international relations in general.", This book aims to understand the processes of and the outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power relations. During peacebuilding interventions, formal and informal, external and internal, state- and non-state actors, struggle for influence. This book aims to unpack the interplay between global ideas, actors and practices and their local counterparts. It explores the precariousness and unpredictability of peacebuilding by examining the friction that occurs where the global and local interact. Analysing these frictional encounters prepares the ground for a better understanding of the mixed impact peace initiatives have on post-conflict societies. The approach of this book also unravels the question of agency by unsettling the boundaries between the global and the local and examining the interaction between the two. The volume develops the concept of friction to question the assumptions embedded in global-local encounters, and adapts this concept and applies it to the field of peacebuilding. Friction is understood as an unexpected and generative process of global interaction that allows creative re-imaginations as an organic response to awkward engagements . Here, friction is used to illuminate how new political, social, and cultural dynamics are produced in peacebuilding sites, but it is also forwarded as a way to understand how global ideas pertaining to peace are charged and changed by their encounters with post-conflict realities. It thus understands friction as a process triggered by global-local encounters rather than as an outcome of such frictional peacebuilding encounters. Further, the eventual, often hybrid outcome, is not necessarily a negative development for the concerned societies, as the process of friction can facilitate change for the better. The chapters analyse societies emerging from violent conflicts and the peacebuilding efforts undertaken to promote sustainable peace. Together, they clearly demonstrate the ambivalent and complex relationship between global and local actors as well as their short- and long-term reciprocal impacts and thereby uncover the unintended, unexpected and sometimes even counter-productive hybrid results of peacebuilding interventions. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies and IR in general."