ISBN:
0203810260
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0415667828
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0415667844
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9780203810262
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9780415667821
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9780415667845
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 277 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version A Post-Liberal Peace
DDC:
303.66
Keywords:
Peace-building
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-273) and index
Abstract:
This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These emerge from the liberal peace's internal contradictions, from its claim to offer a universal normative and epistemological basis for peace, and to offer a technology and process which can be applied to achieve it. When viewed from a range of contextual and local perspectives, these top-down and distan
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; A Post-liberal Peace; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The romanticisation of the local; 1.Civil society, needs and welfare; 2.The culture of liberal peacebuilding; 3. Critical perspectives of liberal peacebuilding: Cambodia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor Leste; 4.De-romanticising the local : implications for post-liberal peacebuilding; Part II: Hybridity and the infrapolitics of peacebuilding; 5.Everyday critical agency and resistance in peacebuilding
Description / Table of Contents:
6. De-romanticising the local, de-mystifying the international: aspects of the local-liberal hybridConclusion: The birth of a post-liberal peace; Appendix 1: HDI and GINI data for post-conflict countries: from settlement to the present; Appendix 2: International versus local perspectives of peacebuilding in Bosnia; Appendix 3: Universal welfare support in transitional states (very rough model); Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
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