Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2152940
Stefan Bächtold
ABSTRACT For its February 2021 coup, the military blacked out mobile internet across Myanmar. Often interpreted as an ad-hoc measure to crush a digitally savvy protest and resistance movement, I propose instead to think blackouts as co-existing practices of connecting and disconnecting that emerged before the coup. Focusing on the role of mobile internet in state formation, this article shows how digital technologies became involved in performing (state) authority in Myanmar: They co-produced both a unifying socio-technical imaginary that glossed over conflicts, and ‘terrorist others’ that are to be disconnected – thus shaping two conflicting statebuilding projects within post-coup Myanmar.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2162362
T. Buitelaar
ABSTRACT There is growing scholarly interest in the role of individuals in UN peace operations, but this literature includes very little systematic analysis of how individual characteristics of peacekeeping leaders affect how international interventions are conducted. This paper seeks to fill this gap by building a systematic framework for analyzing the impact of individual characteristics on the behaviour of field-level personnel. I then show the utility of this framework for explaining the human rights promotion approaches of peace operations through a comparative study of two directors of human rights divisions in the DRC.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2158427
Katelyn Cassin, Benjamin Zyla
ABSTRACT The era of liberal peacebuilding has passed, ushering in a turn toward pragmatic peacekeeping. Previously [Cassin, Katelyn, and Benjamin Zyla. 2021. “The End of the Liberal World Order and the Future of UN Peace Operations: Lessons Learned.” Global Policy 12 (4): 455–467] we argued that the UN must become less directive; accept a diffusion of control; and engage in more locally-driven approaches to peace interventions in light of this changing world order. In this article we posit that such reforms are contingent on change within liberal UN member states. We offer aligned strategic and operational recommendations for nations to reform their bureaucracies, training programmes, and framing strategies, to prepare for a fifth generation of UN peacekeeping that is normatively-flexible, collaborative, adaptive and relational.
自由主义建设和平的时代已经过去，开始转向务实的维和行动。前情提要[Cassin, Katelyn, and Benjamin Zyla] 2021。“自由世界秩序的终结和联合国和平行动的未来:经验教训。”《全球政策》12(4):455-467]我们认为联合国必须减少指导性;接受控制权的分散;并根据这种不断变化的世界秩序，采取更多以地方为导向的方式进行和平干预。在本文中，我们假设这些改革取决于自由的联合国成员国内部的变化。我们为各国改革其官僚机构、培训方案和框架战略提供了一致的战略和业务建议，为第五代联合国维持和平做好准备，使其具有规范的灵活性、协作性、适应性和关系性。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2023.2184941
Pol Bargués, Maria Martin de Almagro, Katrin Travouillon
ABSTRACT This editorial is a call for radical work that deconstructs and creatively reimagines intervention and statebuilding discourses, processes, practices and tools. For over two decades, critics of liberal interventionism have advocated for the need to rethink its dominant top-down and state centric logics. We now see a new generation of scholars that mobilize feminist, marxist, queer, or decolonial theories to critically engage with the ongoing transformation of the post-liberal order. Interventions and statebuilding processes are key to these changes. As scholars and practitioners, we have an opportunity to partake in shaping emerging visions and nurture hope in complex times.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2147318
Elliot Dolan-Evans
ABSTRACT Decentralization in Ukraine is lauded as the most successful of the country’s reforms. The devolution of power to local government has not been without controversy; however, as decentralization proceeded during the war in Donbas. This article critiques Ukrainian’s decentralization based on two promises of this reform: the weakening of oligarchic power and the empowerment of Ukrainians. Utilizing a feminist political economy framework, with relational ontological commitments, this paper argues that decentralization has, rather, empowered Ukrainian elites while marginalizing vulnerable groups during the war. To address political disempowerment and/or economic inequality, this paper concludes, decentralization must address the totality that structures social relations.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2130672
Rhiannon Neilsen
ABSTRACT How states join coalitions affects the extent to which they are perceived as blameworthy – or praiseworthy – for the outcome of that coalition. By extension, states’ moral reputations can be a contributing factor that dissuades those states from volunteering to join humanitarian interventions, despite the ethical imperative to do so. To highlight this argument, this article considers the Australian and the United Kingdom (UK) governments’ initial reluctance to join yet another United States-led intervention in Iraq to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2126653
Isa Lima Mendes
ABSTRACT This article aims to investigate women's inclusion in peace processes through the adoption of a gender perspective. It does so by productively combining two sets of literature: on gender mainstreaming and on peace processes and social contracts. It analyses this issue in the context of Colombia's peace negotiations with FARC, delving into the discourse of various involved actors in the Havana dialogues. Ultimately, the article argues that there was a ‘political ceiling’ to what women were able to achieve in their role as contractarians.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2139908
Morgan Brigg, Nicole George, K. Higgins
ABSTRACT Indigenous approaches to space and place in the Southwest Pacific are crucial to governing peace. However, ‘making space’ for these approaches can only be progressed if scholars and practitioners recognize their emplacement within hegemonic systems of knowledge and the contested entanglement of Indigenous and introduced systems in peacebuilding practice. Addressing this challenge requires respectful and careful engagement with diverse peoples and colonially inflected peacebuilding practice, attending to the emplacement of peace and conflict scholarship amidst the colonial politics of knowledge, and critical reflection on the ways that peacebuilding expertize is defined, attributed and evaluated.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2132093
G. Bădescu
ABSTRACT This article investigates the relationship between spatial reconfigurations and peace by examining the practice I call syncretic place-making, identified in cities experiencing conflict. I suggest that this spatial practice reflects the promise of Hannah Arendt’s political vision of a world in common, materialized in the city. I discuss architectural conceptualizations such as the Cypriot 2021 Venice Biennial entry and theorize from architectural practices of resistance identified in Sarajevo, defining syncretic place-making as a process of drawing from multiple traditions to celebrate coexistence in space. The article reflects on both the potential and challenges that such place-making has for conflict cities.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2124348
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic
ABSTRACT This article seeks to challenge Global North spatial imaginations of war as ‘there’ and peace as ‘here’. It proposes this spatial rethinking against a background of migration being a defining feature of our time. Based on participant observation and an action research project, the article analyses embodied, emplaced encounters with violence and care that migrants experience in the Belgian capital Brussels. These encounters can be violent, but also productive of trust. The concepts of streams of violence and streams of peace are used to theorize these dynamics, thus reconfiguring understandings of where and when war and peace take place.
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