In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order rapidly dissolved underneath the pressure of internecine conflicts raging on all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides especially proved that promoting peace is a particularly fraught challenge in the face of intra-state conflict and sub-national groups that boldy confront nation-states. Tim Murithi investigates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding, synthesizing the fields of moral philosophy and international relations through an analysis of the ethics of negotiation, mediation, forgiveness, and reconciliation. In its exploration of the extent to which ethical concerns influence and inform peacebuilding, this book contributes to a growing body of literature on ethics and international relations that enable students, scholars, and practitioners to contextualize their understanding of a principled peacebuilding.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Peacebuilding's Predicament: A Dark Mood among the Experts.-PART I: Why Peacebuilding Appears Moribund -- Chapter 2: Peacebuilding's Origins and History -- Chapter 3: Revisiting the Local Turn in Peacebuilding -- Chapter 4: Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather than Disrupts Power -- PART II: How Peacebuilding Takes Shape in the Margins -- Chapter 5: The Missing Link in Hybrid Peacebuilding: Localized Peace Trajectories and Endogenous Knowledge -- Chapter 6: Old and New Peace in El Salvador. How Peace Strategies Emerge, Disappear, and Transform -- Chapter 7: Land and Peacebuilding: The Case of the Peacebuilding Process in Colombia through the Peasant Reserve Zones -- Chapter 8: Peacebuilding and Resistance: Inequality, Empowerment, Refusal -- PART III: Can Peacebuilding Be Recreated at the Centre? -- Chapter 9: Achieving a Feminist Peace by Blurring Boundaries between Private and Public -- Chapter 10: The Fraught Development of an International Peace Architecture.
Peacebuilding as a definitions has been initiated and studied quite late, while as a concept it begun to be used after the Cold War. The well-known researcher Johan Galtung, was the one who developed and reasoned the notion of peacebuilding as well as its development phasing.For this scientific paper, which deals with peacebuilding, we have chosen as a case study, the case of Kosovo.The main objective of this paper is to present the developments in Kosovo, and its journey towards peacebuilding, starting from 1999, a period when the war ends and peace begins.Materials elaborated in this paper, are mainly articles and scientific papers by foreign authors, because it is worthwhile and important to have an insight into their point of view regarding Kosovo peacebuilding case.The methodology applied in this research paper, is based on the analysis of these materials, using descriptive and historical method, through which we will highlight the case of peacebuilding in Kosovo.The expected outcomes of this paper, aim to present the definition of peacebuilding as a concept as well as its usage in the case of Kosovo, as a case study used in this research paper. It also aims to show the challenges that Kosovo politics have encountered in order to build a sustainable peace.In the conclusions of this paper, we would like to present the case of peacebuilding in Kosovo as a success story, and this case may be used as a model for other international cases where needed.
Ho-Won Jeong and a cast of experts explore the ways in which the dynamics of post-conflict situations can be transformed to sustainable peace. Contributors focus on designs and models of peacebuilding, functions of peacekeeping, capacity building through negotiations, reconciliation, the role of gender in social reconstruction, and policy coordination among different components of peacebuilding. The analysis illustrates past and current experiences of peacebuilding and suggests conceptual and policy approaches that can overcome the weaknesses of existing strategies
In: Globale Herausforderungen - globale Antworten: eine wissenschaftliche Publikation des Bundesministeriums für Landesverteidigung und Sport, S. 335-344
"Traditionelles Konfliktmanagement, das sich im Wesentlichen auf diplomatische und militärische Maßnahmen stützt, greift zu kurz. Peacebuilding setzt an den Wurzeln der Konflikte an, die mit den unerfüllten Grundbedürfnissen von Menschen verbunden sind, und es berücksichtigt die vielfältigen (meist zivilen) Politikfelder, die sich aus den strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen der Konflikte ergeben. Dabei muss die 'menschliche Sicherheit' im Zentrum der Sicherheitsanstrengungen stehen, insbesondere müssen genderspezifische Gewalt verhindert und die Partizipation von Frauen in Friedensprozessen gefordert werden. Peacebuilding adressiert auch die Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen der unmittelbar von den Konflikten Betroffenen und versucht, sie nachhaltig im Hinblick auf deren eigenen Beitrag zur Gestaltung ihrer gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse zu verändern. Dabei versucht es, negative Effekte durch die Erhebung möglicher Folgewirkungen zu vermeiden. Es informiert auch über die eigenen Vorhaben und trägt zur Objektivierung der Berichterstattung über die Konfliktsituation bei. Peacebuilding versucht, möglichst frühzeitig einer gewaltförmigen Eskalation von Konflikten vorzubeugen und über den unmittelbaren Effekt hinaus eine dauerhafte Deeskalation der Konflikte anzustreben. Dabei nützt es die spezifischen Vorteile von Nichtregierungsorganisationen und strebt ein koordiniertes, komplementäres und kohärentes Agieren der vielfältigen internationalen staatlichen und nichtstaatlichen Akteure, die helfen wollen, an. Peacebuilding wird von gut ausgebildeten und für die Aufgabe geeigneten Fachkräften durchgeführt, die durch effektive Auswahlmechanismen rekrutiert werden. Daraus ergibt sich für die EU und ihre GSVP, dass diese einen wesentlich zivileren, umfassenderen und kohärenteren Ansatz für ihre Bemühungen zur Prävention, Bearbeitung und Nachsorge von bewaffneten Konflikten benötigen." (Autorenreferat)
After the uprising leading to the end of the Qaddafi regime, Libya has a historic opportunity to become a democratic country in the Western sense if the peacebuilding process is successfully completed in the country in the post-conflict period. This article aims to outline the basic steps of the peacebuilding process, involving transitional justice, forming a representative government, strengthening security, making a new constitution, economic reconstruction, and national reconciliation, in that order. The study also emphasizes that since post-conflict situations usually require outside help due to institutional weaknesses, as well as limited human and financial resources, the assistance of the international community to Libya is crucial in the process of peacebuilding. Adapted from the source document.
In: Journal of peacebuilding & development: critical thinking and constructive action at the intersections of conflict, development and peace, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 89-94
The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was launched in June 2006 amid much fanfare and measured optimism. It was conceived as an institutional framework through which a greater degree of coherence would be achieved in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. On 10 March 2008, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peace-building Support, Carolyn McAskie, briefed the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, reiterating the significance of the PBC to Africa. Indeed, the first four countries on the PBC's agenda are African -- Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, and Central African Republic -- and seven African countries serve as members of the PBC's organisational committee. Adapted from the source document.
1. Peacebuilding conceptual framework : From An agenda for peace and its supplement to An agenda for development -- 2. Economic reconstruction amid the multidisciplinary transition to peace -- 3. The economics of war, the economics of conflict resolution, the economics of peace, the economics of development -- 4. Economic reconstruction vs. development : evolving conceptual views -- 5. Peacebuilding at the UN : from conceptualization to operationalization -- 6. The peacebuilding record, lessons, and challenges -- 7. Specific economic issues affecting peacebuilding in selected countries -- 8. Policymaking premises for effective economic reconstruction -- 9. Moving forward : thinking outside the box.