The cultural dimension of peace
Subtitle: decentralization and reconciliation in Indonesia
By: Birgit Bräuchler (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Series: Rethinking peace and conflict studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137504340
Subjects: Politics and government; Reconciliation; Decentralization in government; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace; Peace-building; Conflict management; Ethnic relations; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Social conflict; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights; Religion
Description: "The Cultural Dimension of Peace and Reconciliation outlines an emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies. Taking an anthropological view of decentralization and peace processes in Indonesia as its central focus, it provides an informed understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation that is essential for the reintegration of societies that have undergone mass violence and long-lasting conflict. Bräuchler's study warns of one-sided instrumentalization or harmonization theories, and promotes a critical stance towards the use of 'culture', 'tradition' and 'the local' in peacebuilding. Her focus is on intra-state violence between groups defined by ethnicity, religion or other sub-national (or transnational) collective identities. Based on multi-sited and multi-temporal ethnographic fieldwork, this book develops an approach that opens up spaces and sets a new standard for Peace and Conflict Studies and the anthropology of peace"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Emerging Cultural Turn in Peace Research; title: 2. Decentralization, Revitalization and Reconciliation In Indonesia; title: 3. Conflict and Peacebuilding in Maluku; title: 4. Reconciliation and the Revival of Tradition; title: 5. The Reinvention of Traditional Leadership; title: 6. Indigenous People, Migrants and Refugees : a Clash of Individual and Cultural Human Rights; title: 7. Concluding Reflections Towards a New Anthropology of Peace.