Theorising Civil Society Peacebuilding: The Practical Wisdom of Local Peace Practitioners in Northern Ireland, 1965-2015
In: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: Episteme, Techne but no Phronesis -- 1 Introduction -- Local Grassroots and Civil Society Peacebuilding: a Neglected Contribution? -- Learning from Applied Practice: Defining the Scope of Research -- Knowledge Wars for Peace? -- The Rediscovery of a Lost 'Virtue' of Knowledge: Practical Wisdom -- Conceptualising Phronesis -- Evidence of Phronesis -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Whose Knowledge Counts for Peace? -- The Emergence of Peace Research -- Conflict: Management, Resolution, and Transformation -- Protracted Social Conflicts and Identity-Based Conflict Theory -- Lederach and Sustainable Peacebuilding -- Outsider Interveners, Elicitive Approaches, and Local Knowledge -- Strategic, Integrated, and Multi-Tracked Approaches to Peacebuilding -- Levels of Peacebuilding: Grassroots and Civil Society -- Liberal Peace and the Critical Peace School -- Technocratic Peacebuilding and Its Undermining of the 'local' -- Everyday Peace and the Politics of Peacebuilding Knowledge -- Tensions and Debates About Knowledge for Peacebuilding -- Knowledge Debates in Northern Ireland -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 What Kind of Knowledge Matters for Peace? -- The Aristotelian View: Practical Knowledge, a Neglected Virtue? -- Phronesis: Insights From the Professional Practice Literature -- The Dominance of a Technical-Rational Epistemology of Practice -- Navigating the Swampy Lowland -- Phronesis as Judgement of the Particular -- Ways of Knowing: Insights From Feminist Epistemologies -- Links Between Ways of Knowing and Phronesis -- Phronesis as Knowledge of Context-For-Action -- Building a Conceptual Frame for Phronesis.