Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1917186
P. Justin, W. Verkoren
ABSTRACT This article draws on empirical data collected in Yei River County, South Sudan, to contribute to debates on hybrid governance in Africa. Current literature offers a limited understanding of the practical workings of hybridity, and particularly of whether and under what circumstances hybridity may meet the interests and solve the problems of citizens. This article discusses how subsequent historical attempts at state-building have left a complex and layered governance system and analyses how this system functions on the ground in Yei River County, focusing on the land and justice sectors. The empirical analysis reveals institutional development to be ongoing and to be shaped through continuous negotiations among local stakeholders. Whilst in the land sector, this process produced power imbalances and violence, in the justice sector, unexpected institutional cooperation improved access to justice for local citizens. Important factors in determining these institutional outcomes have been what we have termed the two P’s: pragmatism and power.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1911916
Oliver P. Richmond, Roger Mac Ginty, Sandra Pogodda, Gëzim Visoka
ABSTRACT Recent critical academic work in Peace and Conflict Studies has concentrated on the agential aspects of peace but has somewhat neglected structural issues and the different types of power that may be an obstacle to peace. Yet, for peace to take root, to be emancipatory and truly transformative, it seems that issues of hard power, geo-politics and the structures of states, societies and economies need to be re-addressed in a new set of contexts. This special issue concentrates on how peace scholarship and agendas can be furthered in an era of realism, hard power, the primacy of geopolitics, nationalism, authoritarianism and unfettered capitalism. This article explores the fluid and multifaceted relationship between power and peace, while also introducing the contributions to this special issue.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-26DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1895613
Winnie Bedigen
ABSTRACT There is an increasing interest in women and grassroots/indigenous peace methods inclusion in peacebuilding in the Sub-Sahara region. These moves are proposed as subsidiaries to the ‘high-level’ conventional institutions’ methods. Yet, grassroots/indigenous institutions are not recognised, and women continue to be viewed as passive victims to be protected- but what roles do indigenous women institutions play in peacebuilding? Using empirical data and critical literature on gender and peacebuilding, this paper analyses how South Sudanese indigenous women (Honyomiji) institution engage in peacebuilding. It argues that women’s indigenous obligations of leadership, education, social support and religious/cultural ceremonies are crucial in national peacebuilding. Also, it recognises that such institutions’ terms may not be aligned with conventional standards and make the work of acknowledging indigenous peace methods difficult. However, this paper suggests that their inclusion in the national peace initiatives may provide alternative methods for delivering sustainable peace and learning to peace actors.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1895604
Constadina Charalambous, P. Charalambous, B. Rampton
ABSTRACT Focusing on the role that language and language education can play in peace-building, this paper examines everyday practice through the lens of linguistic ethnography. It investigates Greek Cypriot teenagers learning Turkish, the language of the (former) enemy, and it asks: how were the Turkish language’s associations with violent conflict handled in the practices and institutional organisation of schooling, and how far and in what ways can we say that the Turkish lessons contributed to peace-building? Our findings address the institutional structures and routines of secondary schooling, pedagogic and interactional practices in class, and the links between school and home. The paper concludes with a discussion of what this study might contribute to the notion of ‘de-securitisation’ and to research on ‘hybrid’ and ‘everyday peace’.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-30DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1906516
J. Cruz
ABSTRACT Peace from coloniality has been a device of power within the invention of Latin America which has engaged in different ways of circulation and domination. For example, we see the function of the geopolitical knowledge matrix for the epistemic and practical reproduction of knowledge-power and the appropriation and imposition of a scientific community, derived from modernity, that seeks the classification and codification of a single valid kind of peace. However, it is necessary to denaturalise the structures of how the dominant peace works so that it is questioned and deconstructed, but at the same time allows the possibility of recognising other kinds of peace in Latin America.
{"title":"Colonial power and decolonial peace","authors":"J. Cruz","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1906516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1906516","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Peace from coloniality has been a device of power within the invention of Latin America which has engaged in different ways of circulation and domination. For example, we see the function of the geopolitical knowledge matrix for the epistemic and practical reproduction of knowledge-power and the appropriation and imposition of a scientific community, derived from modernity, that seeks the classification and codification of a single valid kind of peace. However, it is necessary to denaturalise the structures of how the dominant peace works so that it is questioned and deconstructed, but at the same time allows the possibility of recognising other kinds of peace in Latin America.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"9 1","pages":"274 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1906516","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47499109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-22DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1895629
Florian Zollmann
{"title":"From the river to the sea: Palestine and Israel in the shadow of ‘peace’","authors":"Florian Zollmann","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1895629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895629","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"10 1","pages":"204 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895629","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42792268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-22DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1895624
A. Moodie
{"title":"Rebel politics: a political sociology of armed struggle in Myanmar’s borderlands","authors":"A. Moodie","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1895624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"9 1","pages":"366 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895624","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45993069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-18DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1895626
Joanna R. Quinn
ABSTRACT When the state fails to carry out the duties it would normally fulfil in the post-conflict period, non-state actors eventually step in to fill the gaps. Such processes ultimately come to stand in for official state response. While this seems like a fairly innocuous turn of events, there are consequences to the substitution of civil society-run post-conflict rebuilding that are rarely unpacked. The literature has so far not taken up what is a fairly serious issue: By letting the state off the hook, citizens’ needs are never appropriately met; governments are able to continue with other areas of foci – including carrying on with acts of war and human rights abuses and official responsibility is never taken.
{"title":"The impact of state abdication on transitional justice: when non-state actors and other states fill the post-transition gap","authors":"Joanna R. Quinn","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1895626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895626","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When the state fails to carry out the duties it would normally fulfil in the post-conflict period, non-state actors eventually step in to fill the gaps. Such processes ultimately come to stand in for official state response. While this seems like a fairly innocuous turn of events, there are consequences to the substitution of civil society-run post-conflict rebuilding that are rarely unpacked. The literature has so far not taken up what is a fairly serious issue: By letting the state off the hook, citizens’ needs are never appropriately met; governments are able to continue with other areas of foci – including carrying on with acts of war and human rights abuses and official responsibility is never taken.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"9 1","pages":"114 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895626","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46245296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1895619
Karolina Werner
ABSTRACT Customary institutions have taken a lead in providing justice and peace services following conflict in Uganda, taking on governance roles despite being relegated to only cultural status. This has been particularly prevalent in remote areas where government services are lacking, and where customary institutions remain both familiar and accessible. While this has some positive effects, it also has long term negative normative and political implications, which may contribute to uneven service delivery, increasing fragmentation of the state and impunity from the state’s responsibility to address serious crimes. This paper considers the role of customary institutions in delivering peace and justice in the aftermath of small-scale conflict. It argues that indigenous institutions can be enablers of impunity and that there is a need for a more inclusive and integrated framework in which the state works with indigenous structures to ensure service gaps are filled in a cohesive and sustainable manner.
{"title":"Filling the gap: customary institutions as governance actors","authors":"Karolina Werner","doi":"10.1080/21647259.2021.1895619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895619","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Customary institutions have taken a lead in providing justice and peace services following conflict in Uganda, taking on governance roles despite being relegated to only cultural status. This has been particularly prevalent in remote areas where government services are lacking, and where customary institutions remain both familiar and accessible. While this has some positive effects, it also has long term negative normative and political implications, which may contribute to uneven service delivery, increasing fragmentation of the state and impunity from the state’s responsibility to address serious crimes. This paper considers the role of customary institutions in delivering peace and justice in the aftermath of small-scale conflict. It argues that indigenous institutions can be enablers of impunity and that there is a need for a more inclusive and integrated framework in which the state works with indigenous structures to ensure service gaps are filled in a cohesive and sustainable manner.","PeriodicalId":45555,"journal":{"name":"Peacebuilding","volume":"9 1","pages":"222 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21647259.2021.1895619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45076331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1895625
R. Fosu
The story of peacebuilding from the mid-1990s onward is that the local (however it is defined) adumbrate efficacy. The centrality of the local in post-1990 peacebuilding in a way represents a norma...
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