This book investigates why peace and reform processes across
the world have recently been stagnating or have become blocked.
They have failed to maintain security, rights, development, and
justice in the liberal international order. The book identifies the
related rise of counter-peace processes at the heart of failed
peacemaking efforts, and explores the implications for an emerging
multi-polar order where local and international tools for peace and
reform appear to be ineffective. Across a range of recent cases,
from Cambodia, the Balkans, the Sahel region, DRC, Colombia,
Afghanistan, and many others, such dynamics are becoming clearer.
In particular, small-scale blocking tactics across different peace
processes have been evolving into larger political strategies which
are then disseminated within revisionist and revanchist
international networks. Ultimately, this phenomenon has undermined
liberal international order.Spoilers and tactical blockages to
peace have connected across local, national, regional and
international scales, highlighting ideological divisions. Drawing
on counter-revolutionary theory, the concept of counter-peace is
used as a tool to critically interrogate a systemic array of
blockages to peace. Distinct counter-peace patterns are now
entangled in peace and reform processes, including the
stalemate pattern, the limited counter-peace, and the unmitigated
counter-peace patterns. Across cases, once tactical blockages begin
to form these patterns, they become systemic and ultimately enable
conflict escalation. Consequently, the intimate entanglement of the
existing international peace architecture with counter-peace
processes points to ideological divisions in international order,
as well as the growing gulf between diminished practices of peace
and reform with critical scholarship on peace, justice, and
sustainability.
General
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Series: |
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Sandra Pogodda
• Oliver P. Richmond
• Gëzim Visoka
|
Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
127 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-130080-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-03-130080-7 |
Barcode: |
9783031300806 |
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