Peacebuilding and local ownership : post-conflict consensus-building / Timothy Donais.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donais, Timothy, author.

Series:

Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

Studies in conflict, development and peacebuilding ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building.

Peace-building--Social aspects.

Peace-building--Case studies.

Peace-building--Social aspects--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In the context of post-conflict peacebuilding, the idea of local ownership is based upon the premise that no peace process is sustainable in the absence of a meaningful degree of local involvement. Despite growing recognition of the importance of local ownership, however, relatively little attention has been paid to specifying what precisely the concept means or how it might be implemented. This volume contr

Contents:

Preface

Making sense of local ownership in peacebuilding contexts

The liberal peace and the ownership question

Elite ownership: elections and beyond

Civil society and societal ownership

Bosnia: ownership through imposition?

Afghanistan: peacebuilding, political culture and the limits of social engineering

Haiti: ownership and the political economy of peacebuilding

Conclusion: towards peacebuilding as consensus-building.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-171) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-30760-5

1-283-64291-3

0-203-11807-3

1-136-30761-3

9780203118078

OCLC:

813844855