Workshopping Owners: Policies, Procedures and Pitfalls of Peace-Building in the Non-State Sector of Liberia
Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: International peace-building policies have been governed by various discursive framings and paradigms that are overlapping and sometimes inherently contradictory, such as liberal peace and local ownership. This chapter describes a number of travelling models- policies and procedures as mobile social technologies- in peace-building at the local level in Liberia since the years of the civil war (1989-2003) and explores some of the effects and repercussions of those interventions. It is concerned with analysing how power relations influence reactions to the implementation of various models in rural and semi-urban Liberia and describes how they are appropriated and translated by various local actors. The material presented in the chapter shows how the approaches of liberal peace, on the one hand; and of a communitarian notion of local ownership and peace-building from below (involving traditional authorities) on the other hand, are implemented by NGOs at the local level in Liberia. Keywords: civil war; liberal peace; Liberia; local ownership; peace-building; ravelling models
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: Veronika Fuest
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W877192555