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- Anctil Avoine, Priscyll
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Insurgent peace research : affects, friendship and feminism as methods
- 2022
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 22:5, s. 435-455
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Affect and friendship change the way we think about research (epistemology) and conduct research (methodology). This article accounts for affect and friendship as feminist methods in peace research. It argues that affective feminist conversations, practices and actions through friendship can drastically modify how we think about peace. Based on fieldwork conducted in Colombia (2019 and 2022) with female ex-guerrilleras from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (Farc-ep), it (1) draws upon the concepts of camaradería and being insurgent proposed by the women of the Farc-ep to (2) trace how affect and friendship can change the way we do peace research. Ultimately, the article proposes four aspects for the adoption of friendship as a method in peace research by: 1) deconstructing the linearity in peace research methods; 2) multiplying data collection’s methods; 3) including affects throughout the whole research process and 4) advocating for an insurgent peace research that vindicates long-term ‘transversal politics’ and translocal coalition-building.
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- Bjarnesen, Mariam
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Hybrid security governance in Liberia in the aftermath of UN intervention
- 2023
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 23:1, s. 1-22
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- What can we expect in terms of security governance in targeted states as international peacebuilding interventions and security sector reform ends? Can we assume that years of reform and capacity building will result in formal security institutions whose function alone can explain stability or instability, sustainable peace or relapses into violence, or even war? In 2018, the United Nations ended its peacekeeping mission in Liberia. Celebrated as a success and role model for future undertakings, scrutinising the UN narrative may appear as a natural starting point for analysing Liberia’s relative stability. Yet, in the Liberian case, formal performance reviews will never be sufficient. This paper, with a conceptual point of departure in theories of hybrid security governance, recognises the continued entangled nature of formal and informal security provision in Liberia. It argues that post-intervention narratives of success should not keep us from assessing security beyond formal state capacity. Instead, holistic approaches are key to understand security governance as non-state security providers are, for better or worse, likely to remain relevant despite years of reform and capacity building.
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- Björkdahl, Annika, et al.
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Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the national : protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda
- 2015
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 15:4, s. 311-335
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A decade and a half after the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, gendered peace gaps in post-conflict societies are still wide and deep. This raises pressing questions concerning how UNSCR 1325 and concomitant resolutions on women, peace and security (WPS) constitute women and gender, and how they as particular discursive configurations impact on post-conflict societies. In this article we zoom in on the role of National Action Plans (NAPs) for the implementation of 1325 in national contexts. We undertake a discursive analysis of Bosnia-Herzegovina's and Rwanda's NAPs in order to trace how the 1325 agenda of protection, representation and participation is translated into national contexts. We conclude that the NAPs to a large degree perpetuate the status quo and are not used as instruments for greater societal transformation that support women's authentic participation. The article ends with a reflection on how to imagine agency beyond the scripted protection, representation and participation that the NAPs (re) produce and we suggest a possible role for the latest WPS resolution UNSCR 2122 as a vehicle for transformation.
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- Blomqvist, Linnéa, et al.
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Care and silence in women’s everyday peacebuilding in Myanmar
- 2021
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 21:3, s. 223-244
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article draws on feminist perspectives on the everyday to explore women’s everyday experiences of peace in Kayah state in Myanmar. We locate the daily practices women engage in to maintain life and minimise violence, making visible women’s contributions to everyday peace. In addition, we examine the ways in which women are disproportionally affected by war and prevented from benefitting from post-war changes. Our findings demonstrate that practices of care and silence are key avenues for women’s everyday peacebuilding, through which women sustain peace, ensure survival, and minimise violence in their families and wider communities. At the same time, however, these practices are conditioned by and may contribute to gendered insecurity and marginalisation for women. Through this focus, our analysis shows how women’s positioning in gendered relations of power may both enable their agency in peacebuilding and reinforce their gendered inequality and marginalisation in the post-war period. We conclude that while everyday peace practices may hold the potential for positive change, these can also contribute to the reproduction of inequality, oppression and structural violence.
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- Bramsen, Isabel, et al.
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Affects, emotions and interaction : the methodological promise of video data analysis in peace research
- 2022
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 22:5, s. 457-473
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Methodologically, Peace Research has long been dominated by words, numbers, and sometimes images. This article suggests also integrating Video Data Analysis (VDA) into the analytical toolbox of Peace Research so as to explore the potential of the millions of videos of relevance for the study of peace and conflict that can be found online and beyond. The article introduces VDA and shows how the method can be applied to analyse micro-dynamics of phenomena such as violence, conflict, mediation, and peacebuilding. Videos enable researchers to observe events that no or few researchers would otherwise have access to from their armchairs, integrating the attentiveness to interaction and atmosphere that only ethnographers would have. While losing the ethnographer’s benefit of ‘being there’, videos allow researchers to replay events in slow motion and thus capture subtle dynamics of timing, interaction, and affect. The article discusses the epistemological challenges, ethical dilemmas, and future promises of applying VDA in Peace Research and provides concrete examples of how the observation of affects reflected in body postures and facial expressions, as well as the social bonds reflected in the rhythm and content of interaction, can be of value in peace research.
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- Egnell, Robert, 1975-, et al.
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Contextualising international state-building
- 2010
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 10:4, s. 431-441
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Egnell, Robert, 1975-, et al.
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Laudable, ahistorical and overambitious : Security sector reform meets state formation theory.
- 2009
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 9:1, s. 27-54
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Security sector reform (SSR) is a concept that is highly visible within policy and practice circles and that increasingly shapes international programmes for development assistance, security co-operation and democracy promotion. This paper examines the concept and practice of SSR using theories of the state and state formation within a historical-philosophical perspective. The paper recognises that the processes of SSR are highly laudable and present great steps forward towards more holistic conceptions of security and international development. However, the main argument of the paper is that we should be careful of having too high expectations of the possibility of SSR fulfilling its ambitious goals of creating states that are both stable and democratic and accountable. Instead, we should carefully determine what level of ambition is realistic for each specific project depending on local circumstances. A further argument of this paper is that legitimate order and functioning state structures are prerequisites and preconditions for successful democratisation and accountability reforms within the security sector.
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- Egnell, Robert, 1975-
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The organised hypocrisy of international state-building
- 2010
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 10:4, s. 465-491
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper uses the concept of 'organised hypocrisy' as a means of making sense of the inconsistencies and contradictions in contemporary theory and practice of international state-building. While organised hypocrisy in international politics allows states and organisations to maintain systemic stability and legitimacy by managing irreconcilable pressures that might otherwise render them unable to operate effectively, this paper argues that organised hypocrisy also has negative impacts on the operational effectiveness of state-building. It allows organisations to engage in operations without sufficient resources, thereby seriously undermining operational effectiveness and the credibility of international state-building as a legitimate political tool. Organised hypocrisy also creates false expectations among the local and global populations and thereby decreases the credibility of the strategic narrative that is supposed to explain and make sense of the transformation processes to the general public. The paper also explores a number of options for dealing with organised hypocrisy in a way that could improve the effectiveness of international state-building.
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- Eklund Wimelius, Malin, 1972-
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Preventing violent and hateful extremism : comparing the experiences of domestic Swedish and international humanitarian-development NGOs
- 2023
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Routledge. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 23:5, s. 545-561
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden, local authorities are encouraged to cooperate with civil society to promote resilience to violent extremism. However, some (mostly Muslim) organisations are approached with suspicion and sometimes accused of not subscribing to basic democratic principles. Along with cooperation and resilience, suspicion seems to be a recurrent and global theme in the relationship between the prevention of violent and hateful extremism (VHE) and civil society. This paper builds on empirical research by the author and others, which examined how NGOs and FBOs operating within Sweden conducted and were challenged by preventive work. The paper compares results from the Swedish study against findings from international humanitarian-development NGOs via a scoping study to examine the similar and different dynamics around cooperation, resilience, and suspicion in prevention of VHE. Results will help progress the discussion on the challenges that civil society faces in its attempts to promote resilience to VHE.
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- Elfversson, Emma, 1983-, et al.
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Violence in the city that belongs to no one : urban distinctiveness and interconnected insecurities in Nairobi (Kenya)
- 2019
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In: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 19:4, s. 347-370
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Rapid urbanisation in the global South has prompted attention to the causes and dynamics of urban violence. Yet, much research tends to either analyse urban violence without attention to the broader conflict complexes of which it forms a part, neglecting linkages between different forms of urban violence and between urban and rural dynamics, or conversely study violence in cities without acknowledging the particularities of the urban context. In this article, we conceptualise urban violence, theorise how it is shaped by urban dynamics and explore its manifestations in Nairobi, Kenya. We find that while Nairobi is not uniquely violent inside Kenya, violence takes on distinct urban forms given citylevel processes, and also that urban violence has led to policies that increase securitisation and militarisation of the city. Our analysis thus improves knowledge of how criminal and political violence is shaped by and shapes the stability of developing cities.
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