The new politics of conflict resolution: responding to difference
In: Rethinking peace and conflict studies
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In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 535-552
ISSN: 1460-3691
The nascent spatial turn in peace and conflict studies is a promising development that expands conceptual resources and offers useful correctives to existing scholarship. However, the turn to space and place tends not to adequately emplace itself (including on its own European-derived terms) or sufficiently engage the socio-spatial difference of diverse peoples. Instead, a de-contextualised knower is invited to apply a new set of mobile scholarly tools in various settings without seriously considering diverse peoples' conceptualisation and operationalisation of place in socio-political ordering. Long-standing Aboriginal Australian approaches to place, meanwhile, indicate the diversity and sophistication of approaches to space and place. They furthermore show that western political ontology – including the figures of the individual and the state embedded in much dominant scholarship – may not be relevant in many settings in which peace and conflict scholarship is undertaken. Realising the full potential of the spatial turn requires grappling with the relational emplacement of the knowing subject and the varied ways in which place configures socio-political order both for diverse peoples 'in the field' and in the centres of dominant forms of knowing in the Global North.
In: Journal of intervention and statebuilding, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 352-366
ISSN: 1750-2985
In: Third world quarterly, Band 39, Heft 5, S. 838-853
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: International studies review, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 678-680
ISSN: 1468-2486
What is the relationship between cultural difference and global cooperation, and what challenges and opportunities does this relationship pose for cooperation research? This paper examines how culture is a potential resource for global cooperation while grappling with its enigmas and ambiguities. It explores the paradoxes of culture to argue that the partly unknowable character of the concept 'culture' may be an advantage for cooperation research rather than a problem to be solved. The paper casts culture and cultures as examples of a wider class of 'relational' phenomena that arise through interaction and that rely upon this interaction for their standing. This proposition foregrounds relations over entities, becoming over being, and dynamism over fixity in line with a range of contemporary philosophical developments and the burgeoning of interest in relationality. Thinking of culture in relational terms offers a way of modulating culture; of simultaneously respecting cultural difference and allowing that difference is a shared human resource. Relationality can be deployed to help facilitate cooperation by re-opening interaction within political, social, economic, and institutional arrangements, including through processes for generating relational and cooperative effects have been developed in the field of conflict resolution. However, doing so requires that the fields most obviously related to global cooperation (political science, international relations, and global governance) engage relational approaches at the limits of the precise sciences and through philosophy, religion, and non-western cultural traditions.
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In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 68, Heft 2, S. 244-245
ISSN: 1465-332X
In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 68, Heft 2, S. 244-245
ISSN: 1035-7718
In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 68, Heft 2, S. 244-245
ISSN: 1465-332X
In: The Pacific review, Band 24, Heft 5, S. 601-623
ISSN: 1470-1332
In: Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding, S. 329-346
In: Third world quarterly, Band 30, Heft 8, S. 1411-1426
ISSN: 0143-6597
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 30, Heft 8, S. 1411-1426
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 403-417
ISSN: 1363-030X
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 27-47
ISSN: 1461-7390
Governmentality analysis offers a nuanced critique of informal western conflict resolution by arguing that recently emerged 'alternatives' to adversarial court processes both govern subjects and help to constitute rather than challenge formal regulation. However, this analysis neglects possibilities for transforming governance from within conflict resolution that are suggested by Foucault's contention that there are no relations of power without resistances. To explore this lacuna, I theorize and explore the affective and interpersonal nature of governance in mediation through auto-ethnographic reflection upon mediation practice, and Levinas's insights about the relatedness of selves. The article argues that two qualitatively different mediator capacities - technical ability and susceptibility - operate in concert to effect liberal governance. Occasionally though, difficulties and failures in mediation practice bring these capacities into tension and reveal the limits of governance. By considering these limits in mediation with Aboriginal Australian people, I argue that the susceptibility of mediator selves contains prospects for mitigating and transforming the very operations of power occurring through conflict resolution. This suggests options for expanded critical thinking about power relations operating through informal processes, and for cultivating a susceptible sensibility to mitigate liberal governance and more ethically respond to difference through conflict resolution.