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Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research

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  • Thania Paffenholz

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This article undertakes a critical assessment of the local turn in critical peacebuilding scholarship. It comes to the conclusion that the local turn is hampered by a binary and essentialist understanding of the local and the international, which are presented as the only relevant locations of power or resistance. This leads to an ignorance of local elites, provides a romanticised interpretation of hybrid peace governance structures, overstates local resistance and presents an ambivalent relationship to practice. The article recommends a more nuanced understanding of the actors involved in peace- and statebuilding, based on more empirical scholarship and a multidisciplinary approach.

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  • Thania Paffenholz, 2015. "Unpacking the local turn in peacebuilding: a critical assessment towards an agenda for future research," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(5), pages 857-874, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:36:y:2015:i:5:p:857-874
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1029908
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    1. Samantha Melis & Raymond Apthorpe, 2020. "The Politics of the Multi-Local in Disaster Governance," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 366-374.
    2. Almohamad, Selman & Kirchschlager, Markus & Kurtenbach, Sabine, 2020. "Peacebuilding after war and violence - Neighbourhood matters," GIGA Working Papers 324, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
    3. Gearoid Millar, 2021. "Ambition and ambivalence: Reconsidering positive peace as a trans-scalar peace system," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 58(4), pages 640-654, July.
    4. Anna K Johnson & Joséphine Lechartre & Şehrazat G Mart & Mark D Robison & Caroline Hughes, 2023. "Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 60(4), pages 675-690, July.
    5. Katelyn Cassin & Benjamin Zyla, 2021. "The End of the Liberal World Order and the Future of UN Peace Operations: Lessons Learned," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 12(4), pages 455-467, September.
    6. Aidan Craney, 2020. "Local Participation or Elite Capture in Sheep’s Clothing? A Conundrum of Locally Led Development," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 191-200.

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