Assembling Exclusive Expertise: Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction - assembling exclusive expertise: knowledge, ignorance and conflict resolution in the Global South -- Assembling expertise, generating experts -- Situating conflict resolution science -- Locating the local/Global South -- Linking expertise and ignorance -- Describing cases/making interventions -- Tracing expertise anchored in people, institutions, instruments, and creative expressions -- Notes -- References -- PART I: The experts -- 1. Who knows Nigeria? Reflections on conflict expertise and knowledge generation in peacebuilding practice -- Introduction -- Methodology - an ethnography of the self -- Learning about conflict: starting with the self -- Building one's own expertise -- Expertise through institution -- Local expertise: women preventing extremist violence in Nigeria's middle belt -- Is international expertise value added? -- In sum -- Notes -- References -- 2. Experts in an adventure with pirates: a story of Somali piracy expertise -- Introduction -- Who are the pirates, and how do they operate? -- What to do with pirates once you catch them? -- How can we prevent piracy from happening? -- What lessons can be learned from this success? -- Is the fight against piracy over? -- Conclusion: ignorance and the assembling of piracy expertise -- Notes -- References -- 3. From expert to expertise: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert's imaginary and negotiations in South Africa -- The emergence of the idea of 'negotiated transition' -- Slabbert's intellectual trek: from Parsons to Popper -- Forging an elite consensus -- Negotiations: praxis from below -- IDASA and the process of negotiation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: The institutions

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction -- assembling exclusive expertise: knowledge, ignorance and conflict resolution in the Global South; Assembling expertise, generating experts; Situating conflict resolution science; Locating the local/Global South; Linking expertise and ignorance; Describing cases/making interventions; Tracing expertise anchored in people, institutions, instruments, and creative expressions; Notes; References; PART I: The experts

Introduction : assembling exclusive expertise : knowledge, ignorance and conflict resolution in the Global South / Anna Leander and Ole Waever -- Who knows Nigeria? : reflections on conflict expertise and knowledge generation in peacebuilding practice / Linda Bishai -- Experts in an adventure with pirates : a story of Somali piracy expertise / Christian Bueger -- From expert to expertise : Frederik van Zyl Slabbert's imaginary and negotiations in South Africa / Peter Vale and Vineet Thakur -- Worlding conflict resolution and mediation expertise in the Global South / Pinar Bilgin -- Stabilizing crises : assembling NATO Defense College expertise about Libya and Ukraine / Trine Villumsen Berling -- The "Singapore School" and the contested entreprise of terrorism / See Seng Tan -- Bodies count : the politics of assembling war and violent death data expertise / Keith Krause -- SanctionsApp as expertise (and exclusionary ignorance) in a global policy setting / Thomas Biersteker -- Conflict knowledge, big data and the emergence of emergence / David Chandler -- Art as expertise? : creative expression in the Syrian conflict resolution / Anna Leander and Donatella della Ratta