Chapter nine peacebuilding Flashcards
Who has emerged as a leading player in post-conflict peacebuilding?
The World Bank.
What does the growth of the range and quality of information on specific peacebuilding projects and organizations indicate?
A myriad of organisations from the world bank and the UN to thousands of grassroots civil society groups engaged in peacebuilding activities.
What is the Peacebuilding Commission?
The PBC was mandated to operate strategically in three areas: first to advise on integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery. second to finance for early recovery and sustained resources in the medium and long term. and third to develop peacebuilding best practices in collaboration with political, security, humanitarian and development actors.
What is the Peacebuilding Commission composed of?
An organizational committee of 31 members, assisted by a peacebuilding support office (PBSO), and a Peacebuilding fund (PBF)
What did Richmond suggest?
Theories and Methods used to study and negotiate what peace is, requires an engagement with multiple issues, a complex interdisciplinary research agenda, and with an openness to hybridity and difference.
What is the danger according to Roger Mac Ginty?
The danger that peacebuilding can be reduced to a functional and technocratic exercise of ticking boxes, counting heads and weapons, amending constitutions, and reconstructing housing units.
What are the three conceptions of peace seen as seminal papers in the variants of liberal peace?
- A conservative order-stability based variant equated with the state building end of peacebuilding
- An orthodox liberal peacebuilding model equated with pluralism and democratic reform.
- A Justice-emancipatory variant equated with a civil society dominated mode of peacebuilding.
What is a new concern about peace Building?
To develop the relevance of the original concept of peacebuilding based on people to people, peacebuilding from below, and civil society-led discourses.
What should effective and sustainable peacemaking process be based on?
Manipulation of peace agreements by the elite but more importantly, on the empowerment of communities torn apart by war to build peace from below, marked by a recognition of the significance of local actors and the non-governmental sector.
What is the peacebuilding from below linked to in the conflict resolution field?
The idea of liberating communities from the oppression and misery of violence in a project whose main goal was the cultivation of cultures and structures of peace.
What remained a defining characteristic of the conflict resolution approach?
The prioritization of the local and the indigenous in the peacebuilding model developed through the 1990s
What is Diana Francis’ proposed agenda a reminder of?
That the field of peacebuilding despite its successes will not achieve the radical goals of liberation from oppression and violence which lie at the core of its original value system unless peacebuilders also take on the challenge of opposing the global phenomenon of wars with non-violence.
With which suggestion do we conclude the main argument in chapter nine?
The development of peace education as a central component of peacebuilding provides an opportunity both to embed the core values of conflict around non-violence and emancipation and to define a transformative cosmopolitan model which seeks to apply these values in peacebuilding.
What are the four main themes in the peace agreement ( mostly related to education)?
Respecting and implementing the right to education, resuming education services, responding to conflict-created issues within the education sector, and actively reforming the education system as a way to address the issues at the heart of the incompatibility between parties.
What are the five key postulates that characterize contemporary peace education that Ian Harris identified?
- explains the roots of violence
- it teaches alternatives to violence
- It adjusts to cover different forms of violence
- peace itself is a process that varies according to context
- Conflict is omnipresent.
