EAN: 9783319503219

RETHINKING PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES PEACEBU...

This book is the first to chart the rise and fall of peacebuilding. Charting its beginnings  as
an ad-hoc extension of peacekeeping responsibilities  and formalisation  as a UN-supported
international project of building liberal states. Twenty years later  the grounding policy
assumptions of peacebuilding - that democracy  the rule of law and free markets were a
universal solution to conflict-prone states and societies - have been revealed as naïve at best
and at worst  hubristic and Eurocentric. Here  Chandler traces the disillusionment with
international peacebuilding  and the discursive shifts in the self-understanding of the
peacebuilding project in policy and academic debate. He charts the transformation from
peacebuilding as an international project based on universalist assumptions  to the
understanding of peace as a necessarily indigenous process based on plural and non-linear
understandings of difference. Is the end of peacebuilding necessarily a cause for celebration?
Does this shift result in a realist resignation to the world as it appears? Is it necessary to
marry idealism with realism - as E.H. Carr once argued - if we wish to keep open the
possibilities for social change? This book seeks to answer these questions  making an
invaluable reference both for students and practitioners of peacebuilding and for those
interested in the broader shifts in the social and political grounding of policy-making today.

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