Beyond Silence, Obstacle and Stigma: Revisiting the ‘Problem’ of Difference in Peacebuilding
| Autor: | Xavier Mathieu, Pol Bargués-Pedreny |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Peacebuilding 0211 other engineering and technologies Stigma (botany) 02 engineering and technology Pessimism Miasma theory 050601 international relations 0506 political science Epistemology Silence Power (social and political) Intervention (law) Political Science and International Relations Mainstream Sociology Law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding |
| ISSN: | 1750-2985 |
| Popis: | Whereas practitioners and mainstream approaches to intervention are concerned about the inability to manage difference in a way that is conducive to peace, critical scholars worry about the inability to write difference without essentializing ‘it’ or reproducing and legitimizing power structures. Can we revert the pessimism regarding the possibility to engage with others sensitively and build peace in a diverse world? In this article, we argue that the current miasma of despair regarding international interventions is the result of three successive errors in the process of seeking to build a peace sensitive to the other: silencing, problematizing and stigmatizing difference. After examining these three errors, we outline three analytical starting points that offer a better understanding of difference: multidimensionality, anti-essentialism, and a focus on power struggles. This discussion opens the Special Issue and hopes to stimulate further conversations on the role of difference in peacebuilding by focusing on its conditions of emergence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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