Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas and Kappler, Stefanie (2016) 'What attachment to peace? Exploring the normative and material dimensions of local ownership in peacebuilding.', Review of International Studies, 42 (5). pp. 895-914.
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (422Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210516000061 |
| Publisher statement: | © British International Studies Association 2016. This paper has been published in a revised form, subsequent to editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in 'Review of International Studies' (42: 05 (2016) 895-914) http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=RIS |
| Date accepted: | 15 February 2016 |
| Date deposited: | 23 February 2016 |
| Date of first online publication: | 29 March 2016 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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