Peacebuilding legacy : programming for change and young people's attitudes to peace / Sukanya Podder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Podder, Sukanya, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building.

Intergenerational relations.

Youth--Attitudes.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

A fundamental challenge plagues the global peacebuilding community. How can technocratic approaches to peacebuilding that are rooted in short-term, project-based execution of activities, further the longer-term transformative outcomes like altering young people's attitudes and beliefs about peace and violence? In response to this global challenge, Sukanya Podder addresses an important gap relating to the long-term effects of peacebuilding programmes involving children and young people. Podder unpacks the concept of peacebuilding legacy through the lens of time, transformation, and intergenerational peace. Podder also develops unique qualitative cues for measuring legacy in terms of the institutional, normative, and organisational logics.

Contents:

cover

Titlepage

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Puzzle of Peacebuilding Legacy

Argument in Brief

A Few Words on Research Design and Methodology

Significance and Relationship to the Existing Literature

Theme 1: Measurement of Peacebuilding Effectiveness

Theme 2: Learning and Reflection from Peacebuilding Evaluation

Theme 3: Sustainable Peace and Local Ownership

Theme 4: The Role of Children and Youth in Peacebuilding

Theme 5: Media and Peace Education for Building Peace Norms

Case Specific Literature and Significance

Organization of the Book

1 Peacebuilding Legacy

Conceptualizing Peacebuilding Legacy

Time

Transformation

Intergenerational Peace

Capturing Peacebuilding Legacy

Cues for Capturing Legacy

Transmission of Peace Norms: Resonance and Retention

Institutionalization, Sustainability, and Timely Exits

Organizational Learning and Reflection

The Transformative Potential of Technocratic Peacebuilding

2 Data and Methods

Research Design

Case Study Research

Meta-ethnographic Synthesis

Reading and Translating the Studies

Reflections on the Process

Challenges of Fieldwork in Post-war Countries

Ethical Considerations

Field Research in Sierra Leone

Research with Child Reporters and Young People in Freetown

Land Conflicts and the Rural Hinterland

Fieldwork in Macedonia

Observations from the Mozaik Groups in Struga, Debar, and Skopje

Mozaik Alumni in Debar and Skopje

Potential Limitations and Biases

3 Peacebuilding through Pre-school Education and Media Programmes in Macedonia

War, Peace, and Interethnic Relations in Macedonia.

Language Rights and the Demand for Education in the Mother Tongue

Educational Segregation and Early Years' Provision: Integrated Education for Conflict Prevention

The School System and Monolingual Instruction

Policy and Practical Developments on Integrated Education

Early Years' Education

Evolution of the Mozaik Bilingual Immersion Groups: A Story of Shocks, Adaptation, and Institutionalization

The Conflict of 2001 and After

Dwindling Resources and Quality

Standardization Measures

Training and Monitoring

Adjustments

Lessons

Norm Transmission and Retention: Social Capital, Inter-regional Difference, and the Limits of Diffusion

Mozaik Values and Behaviour Change over Time

Social Capital and Norm Retention

Blockages to Transformative Peace

Intergenerational Values

Complementing Mozaik through Media and Theatre

Nashe Maalo

Bridges for the New Balkans

The Balkan Theatre Network

Shortcomings of the Media Projects

Social Capital Dynamics and the Media Projects

Conclusion

4 Children and Youth-Focused Radio in Sierra Leone

Background and Context Leading to the Civil War

Intergenerational Tensions and the Sierra Leone Civil War

Post-war Liberal Peacebuilding and Youth Empowerment

Radio and Media in Promoting Peace and Reconciliation

Studying Children and Youth Focused Radio and Its Legacy

Making Local Voices Count: Radio Led Reconciliation after the War

From an Authentic to a Manufactured Peace: Shifting to a Formulaic Narrative

Programming for Change? The Evolution of the Studio's Radio Programmes

Theme 1: Rights and Participation of Children, Women, and Youth

Theme 2: Governance and Anti-corruption

Theme 3: Democracy Promotion and Electoral Participation

Radio Based Norm Transmission: Variable Resonance, and Inauthentic Norm Adoption.

Institutionalization of the Gains: Caught Between a Diffused and an Accidental Legacy

A Few Accidental Legacies: Community Radio, IRN, and the BRU

5 Learning and Reflection from Sierra Leone and Macedonia

The Push for Adaptive and Agile Peacebuilding

Barriers to and the Limits of Learning from M&amp

E

Disciplinary Disconnect

Technocratic Dominance

Fear of Failure and Limited Consequences of Not Learning

Managing the Institutional Memory

Organizational Learning Practices of the Partner INGO

Macedonia Country Office Learning Trajectory

Learning from Evaluation in Macedonia

Sierra Leone Country Office Learning Trajectory

Learning from Evaluation in Sierra Leone

Variation in Country Office Learning Behaviour

Staff Continuity

National Government Buy-in

Local Partnerships

Donor Rules

6 Programming for Change: Media and Peace Education in Shaping Young People's Attitudes to Peace

Children and Young People's Attitudes to War and Peace

Media and Peace Education: Norms, Persuasion, and Attitude Change

Norms and Attitude Change

Media Persuasion and Peace Education for Norm Messaging

Second Order Interpretations on Norm Persuasion and Attitude Change

Macedonia

Intercultural Communication: Minority Language, Intergroup Contact, and Socialization

Quality Pre-school Education: Enrolment, Institutionalization, and Pedagogy

Citizenship and Ethnic Identity: Segregation, Integrated Education, and Social Cohesion

Sierra Leone

Access and Acceptance: Information, Sensitization, and Dependence

Agency and Behaviour: Voice, Capacity, and Participation

Citizenship and Democracy: Governance, Accountability, and Elections

The Limits of Persuasion and Young People's Attitudes to Peace.

Conclusion Transforming Peacebuilding for Transformative Peace

The Study of Peacebuilding Legacy: Conceptual and Analytical Dimensions

Operationalizing the Logics of Legacy for Peacebuilding Practice

The Institutional Aspects of Peacebuilding Legacy

Linking Informal Advocacy with Formal Systems

Material and Non-material Resonance

The Normative Aspects of Peacebuilding Legacy

Norms Transmission, Resonance, and Retention is Intergenerational

Policy Articulation is Not the Same as Norm Internalization

The Organizational Aspects of Peacebuilding Legacy

Documenting Field Level Changes

Continuity in Local Partnerships

Peacebuilding with Children and Young People: From Instrumental to Transformative Participation

1. Youth as Partners Rather than Targets

2. Youth as Agents of Change

3. Integrating Youth Activism into the Formal Sphere

4. Adopting an Ecological Model of Peace

Bibliography

Appendix 1: Evaluation based recommendations and follow-up actions in Macedonia

Appendix 2: Evaluation based recommendations and follow-up actions in Sierra Leone

Appendix 3: Macedonia meta-ethnographic synthesis and concepts

Appendix 4: Sierra Leone meta-ethnographic synthesis and concepts

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 7, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-267889-2

0-19-195459-4

0-19-267888-4