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This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking,
looking at its theoretical assumptions, empirical applications and
its consequences. Despite the wealth of research on external
interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding, many scholars
tend to rely on findings in the so-called 'post-agreement' phase of
interventions. As a result, most mainstream peacebuilding
literature pays limited or no attention to the linkages that exist
between mediation practices in the negotiation phase and processes
in the post-peace agreement phase of intervention. By linking the
motives and practices of interveners during negotiation and
implementation phases into a more integrated theoretical framework,
this book makes a unique contribution to the on-going debate on the
so-called Western 'liberal' models of peacebuilding. Drawing upon
in-depth case-studies from various different regions of the world
including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ivory
Coast, Senegal and Sierra Leone, this innovative volume examines a
variety of political motives behind third party interventions, thus
challenging the very founding concept of mediation literature. This
book will of much interest to students of peacebuilding,
statebuilding, peacemaking, war and conflict studies, security
studies and IR in general.
Knowledge about violent conflict and international intervention is
political. It involves power struggles over the objects of knowing
(problematization/silencing), how they are known (epistemic
practices), and what interpretations are taken into account in
policymaking and implementation. This book unearths the politics,
power and performances involved in the social construction of
seemingly neutral concepts such as facts, truth and authenticity in
knowing about violent conflict and international intervention.
Contributors foreground problems of physical and social access to
information, explore practices generating knowledge actors'
authority and legitimacy, and analyse struggles over competing
policy narratives. A first set of chapters focuses on the social
construction of facts, truth and authenticity through studies of
militia research in the DR Congo, politicians' on-site visits in
intervention theatres in the Balkans and Afghanistan, and the
epistemic practices of Human Rights Watch and comics journalism. A
second set of contributions analyses the strategic side of
knowledge through case studies of diplomatic counterinsurgency in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, African governments' active role in the
'bunkerization' of international aid workers, and authoritarian
peacebuilding as a challenge to the liberal power/knowledge regime
in world politics. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Knowledge about violent conflict and international intervention is
political. It involves power struggles over the objects of knowing
(problematization/silencing), how they are known (epistemic
practices), and what interpretations are taken into account in
policymaking and implementation. This book unearths the politics,
power and performances involved in the social construction of
seemingly neutral concepts such as facts, truth and authenticity in
knowing about violent conflict and international intervention.
Contributors foreground problems of physical and social access to
information, explore practices generating knowledge actors'
authority and legitimacy, and analyse struggles over competing
policy narratives. A first set of chapters focuses on the social
construction of facts, truth and authenticity through studies of
militia research in the DR Congo, politicians' on-site visits in
intervention theatres in the Balkans and Afghanistan, and the
epistemic practices of Human Rights Watch and comics journalism. A
second set of contributions analyses the strategic side of
knowledge through case studies of diplomatic counterinsurgency in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, African governments' active role in the
'bunkerization' of international aid workers, and authoritarian
peacebuilding as a challenge to the liberal power/knowledge regime
in world politics. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
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