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A ‘Local’ Response to Peacebuilding Efforts in Timor-Leste

, 2018
Many international agencies and donors that have implemented peacebuilding activities in a variety of countries and situations acknowledge, in theory, the importance of placing local communities at the center of peacebuilding activities.
1225, Tanaka, Yukako Sakabe
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Transition to Peace: Young People and Their Attitudes Towards Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

Glocality
This research identifies the attitudes of Northern Irish youth towards peacebuilding in Northern Ireland 26 years after the Troubles. This study used qualitative research to conduct two focus group discussions with 21 young people aged 13–18, six semi ...
Nyncke Kuperus
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

Depoliticisation, water, and environmental peacebuilding

, 2018
This chapter addresses the politics of water and the interplay between depoliticisation, technocracy and peacebuilding. Water scarcity is often framed with a dual emphasis on the conflictual and cooperative dimensions.
Aggestam, Karin,, Lund University.
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Vertical Relationships and Local Peacebuilding in Lebanon: The Case of Responsive Waste Management

, 2020
There is a growing understanding that vertical relationships matter for peacebuilding efforts that respond to local needs. There is little consensus, however, on how to study verticality in peacebuilding empirically.
Leonardsson, Hanna,
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Building Bridges with Music

Voices
Background: The use of music in a peacebuilding context has increasingly gained popularity among peacebuilders, musicians, music educators, community musicians, and music therapists alike.
Johanna Möller
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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
wiley   +1 more source

The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In divided societies, can museums contribute to healing and recovery? While efforts to memorialize past violence typically aim to promote tolerance and reconciliation, remembering could exacerbate divisions in recovering societies where the past is deeply contested. We examine a transitional justice museum exhibit in Northern Ireland.
Laia Balcells, Elsa Voytas
wiley   +1 more source

Local approaches to climate-sensitive peacebuilding: lessons from Afghanistan

Global Social Challenges Journal, 2022
Since the early 2010s, academic and policy debates about the interlinkages between climate and security have expanded and deepened. Climate is now widely acknowledged to magnify security risks especially in conflict or post-conflict contexts.
Abdenur Adriana E., Tripathi Siddharth
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Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg, Zorzeta Bakaki, Jessica Di Salvatore   +2 more
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