EAN: 9783030043179

PEACE IN POLITICAL UNSETTLEMENT - JAN POSPISIL ...

International peacebuilding has reached an impasse. Its lofty ambitions have resulted in at
best middling success  punctuated by moments of outright failure. The discrediting of the term
¿liberal peacebuilding¿ has seen it evolve to respond to the numerous critiques. Notions such
as ¿inclusive peace¿ merge the liberal paradigm with critical notions of context  and the need
to refine practices to take account of ¿the local¿ or ¿complexity¿. However  how this would
translate into clear guidance for the practice of peacebuilding is unclear. Paradoxically 
contemporary peacebuilding policy has reached an unprecedented level of vagueness. Peace in
political unsettlement provides an alternative response rooted in a new discourse  which aims
to speak both to the experience of working in peace process settings. It maps a new
understanding of peace processes as institutionalising formalised political unsettlement and
points out new ways of engaging with it. The book points to the ways in which peace processes
institutionalise forms of disagreement  creating ongoing processes to manage it  rather than
resolve it. It suggests a modest approach of providing ¿hooks¿ to future processes  maximising
the use of creative non-solutions  and practices of disrelation  are discussed as pathways for
pragmatic post-war transitions. It is only by understanding the nature and techniques of
formalised political unsettlement that new constructive ways of engaging with it can be found.

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