Essays about: "liberal peacebuilding"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 26 essays containing the words liberal peacebuilding.
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16. The Grey Shade of Local Peacebuilding : A Qualitative Study of an Informal Local Peace Committee in the Midst of Violence. Laikipia, Northern Kenya.
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : Previous research shows that there is a demand of enhancing our understanding about the local actor as a mechanism for peacebuilding, suggesting a need for further investigation about the phenomena amid the growing complexity and decentralization of scenes in conflict. The research in this study draws together empirical data on an informal local peace committee (LPC) conducted in Laikipia, northern Kenya; a county which have experienced a multitude of conflict dynamics recently involving state and non-state actors, to know more about their role as local peacebuilders. READ MORE
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17. The Political Ecology of Peace: Qualitative study on indigenous people´s peacebuilding in the post-conflict Colombia
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This study examines indigenous peacebuilding in Colombia in line with the liberal peace project, which frames the territorial peacebuilding in Colombia. The need for exploring alternatives to the peacebuilding paradigm as an emblem of the liberal peace is urged; as it attempts to achieve a standardized peace while developing war-torn countries. READ MORE
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18. The local-turn critique and its implications: A case study of Cambodia and East-Timor
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Inspired by recent criticism of liberal peacebuilding and the academic debate revolving around the effect of the local-turn on peacebuilding operations, this thesis aims to leave the general realm of the debate behind and demonstrate how all this manifested in two particular peacebuilding operations. Through the case of Cambodia and East-Timor the thesis demonstrates, that even though the overall strategy adopted by the United Nations was heavily top-down structured, on many instances they made significant efforts to cooperate with local actors, and thus the criticism of liberal peacebuilding on the lack of cooperation with the local are exaggerated. READ MORE
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19. The European Union’s Human Security Approach: Transitioning from Childhood towards Adolescence. A tale of innocence and experience in the Sahel.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines EU’s adoption of a human security approach and the extent to which it has been part of crisis management discourse as well as practice in the Sahel region of Africa. It tells the story of a maturing process for a core approach in EU security policy; that is, the story of human security and how the concept has evolved from a state of innocence to gradual experience and adolescence. READ MORE
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20. Could democracy be a trigger for conflict? : The case of democratic violence in Liberia
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to prove the hypothesis that liberal democracy could trigger conflict when implemented to a post-conflict country. During the last decades there has been a debate regarding whether the implementation of liberal peacebuilding and liberal democracy is a mean for peace or a mean for conflict. READ MORE
