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While many have argued in the past decade that peace and conflict
studies must engage more with local actors and communities, and
scholars regularly describe the importance of local context and
culture for building sustainable peace, there are substantial
challenges methodologically to fulfilling this 'local turn'. Many
peace and conflict studies scholars are inexperienced with methods
appropriate for engaging with local communities, contexts and
cultures, and many of the important institutions in the field, from
key journals to important funders, exhibit a continuing preference
for quantitative studies. The Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR)
agenda has recently been developed in response to these challenges
and is one of the key avenues to providing a methodological
complement to the more theoretically-focused local turn literature.
This volume explores the application of the EPR approach in a
number of post-conflict and conflict-affected societies around the
world. While some chapters take a largely theoretical approach,
most consider the practical application and the different kinds of
methods that may be useful components of an EPR project. Together,
the authors provide new insights into the benefits, challenges, and
ethics of the emerging EPR agenda. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the journal International
Peacekeeping.
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 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 outline and promote an ethnographic approach to
evaluating international peacebuilding interventions in
transitional states. While the evaluation of peacebuilding and
transitional justice efforts has been a growing concern in recent
years, too often evaluations assess projects based on locally
irrelevant measures, reinforce the status quo distribution of power
in transitional situations, and uncritically accept the implicit
conceptions of the funders, planners, and administrators of such
projects. This book argues that evaluating the effects of
peacebuilding interventions demands an understanding of the local
and culturally variable context of intervention. Throughout the
book, the author draws on real world examples from extensive
fieldwork in Sierra Leone to argue that local experiences should be
considered the primary measure of a peacebuilding project's
success. An ethnographic approach recognizes diversity in
conceptions of peace, justice, development and reconciliation and
takes local approaches and local critiques of the international
agenda seriously. It can help to empower local actors, hold the
international peacebuilding industry accountable to its supposed
beneficiaries, and challenge the Western centric ideas of what
peace entails and how peacebuilding is achieved. This book will be
of much interest to students and scholars of peacebuilding, peace
and conflict studies, transitional justice, African politics,
ethnography, International Relations and security studies, as well
as practitioners working in the field.
While many have argued in the past decade that peace and conflict
studies must engage more with local actors and communities, and
scholars regularly describe the importance of local context and
culture for building sustainable peace, there are substantial
challenges methodologically to fulfilling this 'local turn'. Many
peace and conflict studies scholars are inexperienced with methods
appropriate for engaging with local communities, contexts and
cultures, and many of the important institutions in the field, from
key journals to important funders, exhibit a continuing preference
for quantitative studies. The Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR)
agenda has recently been developed in response to these challenges
and is one of the key avenues to providing a methodological
complement to the more theoretically-focused local turn literature.
This volume explores the application of the EPR approach in a
number of post-conflict and conflict-affected societies around the
world. While some chapters take a largely theoretical approach,
most consider the practical application and the different kinds of
methods that may be useful components of an EPR project. Together,
the authors provide new insights into the benefits, challenges, and
ethics of the emerging EPR agenda. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the journal International
Peacekeeping.
This book aims to outline and promote an ethnographic approach to
evaluating international peacebuilding interventions in
transitional states. While the evaluation of peacebuilding and
transitional justice efforts has been a growing concern in recent
years, too often evaluations assess projects based on locally
irrelevant measures, reinforce the status quo distribution of power
in transitional situations, and uncritically accept the implicit
conceptions of the funders, planners, and administrators of such
projects. This book argues that evaluating the effects of
peacebuilding interventions demands an understanding of the local
and culturally variable context of intervention. Throughout the
book, the author draws on real world examples from extensive
fieldwork in Sierra Leone to argue that local experiences should be
considered the primary measure of a peacebuilding project's
success. An ethnographic approach recognizes diversity in
conceptions of peace, justice, development and reconciliation and
takes local approaches and local critiques of the international
agenda seriously. It can help to empower local actors, hold the
international peacebuilding industry accountable to its supposed
beneficiaries, and challenge the Western centric ideas of what
peace entails and how peacebuilding is achieved. This book will be
of much interest to students and scholars of peacebuilding, peace
and conflict studies, transitional justice, African politics,
ethnography, International Relations and security studies, as well
as practitioners working in the field.
This volume calls for an empirical extension of the "local turn"
within peace research. Building on insights from conflict
transformation, gender studies, critical International Relations
and Anthropology, the contributions critique existing peace
research methods as affirming unequal power, marginalizing local
communities, and stripping the peace kept of substantive agency and
voice. By incorporating scholars from these various fields the
volume pushes for more locally grounded, ethnographic and
potentially participatory approaches. While recognizing that any
Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) agenda must incorporate a variety
of methodologies, the volume nonetheless paves a clear path for the
much needed empirical turn within the local turn literature.
This volume calls for an empirical extension of the "local turn"
within peace research. Building on insights from conflict
transformation, gender studies, critical International Relations
and Anthropology, the contributions critique existing peace
research methods as affirming unequal power, marginalizing local
communities, and stripping the peace kept of substantive agency and
voice. By incorporating scholars from these various fields the
volume pushes for more locally grounded, ethnographic and
potentially participatory approaches. While recognizing that any
Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) agenda must incorporate a variety
of methodologies, the volume nonetheless paves a clear path for the
much needed empirical turn within the local turn literature.
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