Peacebuilding and friction global and local encounters in post conflict societies
By: edited by Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearoid Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn and Willemijn Verkoren
Series: Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781138937512; 9781315669823
Subjects: International cooperation; Peace-building; Case studies; Conflict management; Postwar reconstruction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : peacebuilding through the lens of friction / Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren; title: Frictional spaces : transitional justice between the global and the local / Susanne Buckley Zistel; title: Respecting complexity : compound friction and unpredictability in peacebuilding / Gearoid Millar; title: Frictional commemoration : Local agency and cosmopolitan politics at memorial sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda / Johanna Mannergren Selimovic; title: Escaping friction : practices of creating non-frictional space in Sierra Leone / Lise Philipsen; title: Sites of friction : governance, identity and space in Mostar / Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic; title: The imagined agent of peace : frictions in peacebuilding through civil society strengthening / Willemijn Verkoren and Mathijs van Leeuwen; title: Friction over justice in post-war Sri Lanka : actors in local-global encounters / Kristine Höglund and Camilla Orujela; title: The "awkward" success of peacebuilding in Cambodia : creative and incomplete, unsustainable yet resilient, progressing but stalling / Joakim Öjendal and Sivhuoch Ou; title: Frictions in illusionstan : engagement between the "global" and the "local" in Afghanistan's imagi-nation-building / Jaïr van der Lijn; title: Connections for peace : frictions in peacebuilding encounters in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo / Sara Hellmüller; title: Problematising global-local dynamics in Timor-Leste / Maria Raquel Freire and Paula Duarte Lopes; title: Conclusions : peacebuilding and the significance of friction / Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearold Millar, Jaïr van der Lijn, and Willemijn Verkoren.