This book examines the logic behind the shifts and paradigm changes
within the scholarship on peacebuilding. In particular, the book is
concerned with examining if, and how, these shifts have
significantly altered how we think about peacebuilding beyond the
'liberal peacebuilding' paradigm. To do so, the book engages with
the logic of critique that has led to the emergence of different
theoretical approaches to peacebuilding, from hands-on
institutionalisation, to the 'local turn'. It uses the case of
Kosovo to understand how a lessons-learnt approach facilitated the
shift towards more invasive and intrusive forms of peacebuilding
first. However, it is also crucial to understanding the recent
local turn, as the rise of local ownership discourses in Kosovo is
fundamentally tied to the critiques of extensive international
missions, and the associated resistance and marginalisation of
local agency. The book examines the implications of the framing of
'everyday' agency in order to assess the extent to which these
bottom-up approaches have been able to by-pass the problems
attributed to the liberal peace approach. It argues that despite
its critical and radical intentions, the local turn retains certain
foundational modernist and positivist qualities that have so far
characterised the very mainstream approaches these critiques claim
to transcend. This book will be of much interest to students of
peacebuilding, statebuilding, peace and conflict studies, security
studies and International Relations in general.
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