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What Attachment to Peace? Exploring the Normative and Material Dimensions of Local Ownership in Peacebuilding

Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas; Kappler, Stefanie

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Nicolas Lemay-Hébert



Abstract

The peacebuilding and academic communities are divided over the issue of local ownership between problem-solvers who believe that local ownership can ‘save liberal peacebuilding’ and critical voices claiming that local ownership is purely a rhetorical device to hide the same dynamics of intervention used in more ‘assertive’ interventions. The article challenges these two sets of assumptions to suggest that one has to combine an analysis of the material and normative components of ownership to understand the complex ways in which societies relate to the peace that is being created. Building on the recent scholarship on ‘attachment’, we claim that different modalities of peacebuilding lead to different types of social ‘attachment’ – social-normative and social-material – to the peace being created on the part of its subjects.

Citation

Lemay-Hébert, N., & Kappler, S. (2016). What Attachment to Peace? Exploring the Normative and Material Dimensions of Local Ownership in Peacebuilding. Review of International Studies, 42(5), 895-914. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210516000061

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 15, 2016
Online Publication Date Mar 29, 2016
Publication Date Dec 1, 2016
Deposit Date Feb 18, 2016
Publicly Available Date Feb 23, 2016
Journal Review of International Studies
Print ISSN 0260-2105
Electronic ISSN 1469-9044
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 42
Issue 5
Pages 895-914
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210516000061

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