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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Liberal Peace"”.
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NGO Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda: Interrogating Liberal Peace from the Ground
The question of what agenda drives NGO peacebuilding in post-conflict setting has been raised in a number of literatures which make generalized conclusions that NGOs tend to respond to the liberal peace agenda, and in the process co-opt local peacebuilding initiatives. Liberal peace agenda refers …
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Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique back to the institutions with which liberal peace building is preoccupied, by …
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A Minefield of Possibilities: The viability of Liberal Peace in Somaliland, with particular reference to Mine Action.
The dominant liberal peacebuilding critiques tends to focus on ‘states’ and the failure of interventions in rebuilding them. Consequently, a standardised critique has emerged largely because the critics apply a broad brush across a diverse range of contexts, programmes, issues and activities as …
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A Minefield of Possibilities: The viability of Liberal Peace in Somaliland, with particular reference to Mine Action.
The dominant liberal peacebuilding critiques tends to focus on ‘states’ and the failure of interventions in rebuilding them. Consequently, a standardised critique has emerged largely because the critics apply a broad brush across a diverse range of contexts, programmes, issues and activities as …
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What is left for the youth at-risk? Honouring local peace dividends, rehabilitation and integration through the relational sensibility approach. An analysis of reintegration approaches and their effectiveness on youth at-risk of criminalisation – a Somalia case study
The liberal peace approach guided the Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes under the auspices of the United Nations. While both practitioners and policymakers recognised that context fitted approaches are required, which resulted in the revision of DDR policy and practice, …
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Indigenising post-war state reconstruction. The Case of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
… reconstruction are primarily dominated by the liberal peace thesis. These approaches tend to ignore the indigenous institutions, societal resources and cultural agencies of post-conflict societies, although such entities are rooted in the sociological, historical, political and environmental …
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Changing narratives? Shifting discursive conceptualisations of post-conflict peace-building
… and paradigm changes within the scholarship on peace-building. In particular, the thesis is concerned with examining if, and how, these shifts have significantly altered the manner in which the foundational elements of thinking about peace-building have changed beyond the ‘liberal …
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Building positive peace? : A gendered analysis of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security
… of the United Nations approach to international peacebuilding. Whereas the resolution has been critiqued in terms of its implementation, there is a gap in the existing analysis concerning a deeper critical understanding of gender and the significant link between the constructions of gender and …
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Chieftaincy reform, decentralisation and post-conflict state reconstruction and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone 2004-2012
Liberal peacebuilding, the means by which transition societies can be reconfigured and reconstructed to bring about lasting peace, focussed on chieftaincy reform and decentralization as part of the peacebuilding package in Sierra Leone. The main focus of this research is to explore the efficacy of …
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Chieftaincy reform, decentralisation and post-conflict state reconstruction and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone 2004-2012
Liberal peacebuilding, the means by which transition societies can be reconfigured and reconstructed to bring about lasting peace, focussed on chieftaincy reform and decentralization as part of the peacebuilding package in Sierra Leone. The main focus of this research is to explore the efficacy of …
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Factors influencing China's behaviour in the South China Sea
… theoretical: to what extent is the flourishing `liberal peace' argument in International Relations theory valid when applied to China's international behaviour, and towards the South China Sea disputes in particular'? The advocates of the `liberal peace' argument have spent much energy attempting …
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The Value of Culture in Peacebuilding -- Examples from Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen and Nepal
<p>Top-down coercive type of liberal peace building has characterized the interventions by international community in many post-conflict societies after the Second World War. Recent studies suggest that in order to build a more lasting peace a bottom-up, non-coercive approach is needed to balance …
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The EU and civilian crisis management: a case study of EULEX KOSOVO and building multi-ethnic rule of law
… paper, I examine EULEX’s ability to act as a liberal peace actor in instituting a uniform rule of law system in post-war Kosovo. Although it portrays itself as a highly technical actor to appease all sides, EULEX’s ability to function is politically dependent. As a result, rule of law has a …
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Trials of a comprehensive peace agreement: an investigation into the dilemmas faced by North and South Sudan
… two parties since the 2005 Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and after the independence of South Sudan. The study critically analyses the CPA and investigates the dilemmas faced by the two Sudans and examines the conflict resolution/transformation process. This thesis relies on data …
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The Specter of Liberal Benevolence: Power, Podcasts, and Perpetual Peace
… military apparatus. I argue that international liberalism is used to capture the hearts and minds of the professional-managerial class. Specifically, the framings of the democratic peace theory, multilateralism, and international law soften the violent and deleterious interventionist decisions …
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Three essays on Self-Government Accounting Practices under Settler Colonialism: A Case study from Palestine.
… Management (NPFM) as a component of the liberal peace-building discourse, disseminated by the World Bank. The study relies on the Fairclough dialectical relational approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (1992, 1999, 2010, 2012). The essay performs a semiotic analysis of the text of the …
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Identity, Resilience and Social Justice: Peace-making in a Neoliberal Global Order
… and non-armed social actors to participate in peace processes – has emerged as the fundamental principle of peace process design. As external international peace mediation theoretically no longer seeks to dictate liberal peace outcomes, but merely aims to facilitate participatory processes of …
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Sierra Leone`s post-conflict reconstruction: a study of the challenges for building long term peace
… impact on the local challenges for longer term peace. Continued corruption among the political class, the persistent disenfranchisement of important social groups, and emerging tensions along political party lines suggested that, ten years on from the Lomé Peace Accord, there may have been a …