|
|
books
| book details |
An Ethnographic Approach to Peacebuilding: Understanding Local Experiences in Transitional States
By (author) Gearoid Millar
|
| on special |
normal price: R 2 298.95
Price: R 2 068.95
|
| book description |
This book aims to outline and promote an ethnographic approach to evaluating international peacebuilding interventions in transitional states. While the evaluation of peacebuilding and transitional justice efforts has been a growing concern in recent years, too often evaluations assess projects based on locally irrelevant measures, reinforce the status quo distribution of power in transitional situations, and uncritically accept the implicit conceptions of the funders, planners, and administrators of such projects. This book argues that evaluating the effects of peacebuilding interventions demands an understanding of the local and culturally variable context of intervention. Throughout the book, the author draws on real world examples from extensive fieldwork in Sierra Leone to argue that local experiences should be considered the primary measure of a peacebuilding project’s success. An ethnographic approach recognizes diversity in conceptions of peace, justice, development and reconciliation and takes local approaches and local critiques of the international agenda seriously. It can help to empower local actors, hold the international peacebuilding industry accountable to its supposed beneficiaries, and challenge the Western centric ideas of what peace entails and how peacebuilding is achieved. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, transitional justice, African politics, ethnography, International Relations and security studies, as well as practitioners working in the field.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 23 Jul 2015
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 198
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 294g
ISBN | 978-1-1389-5306-2
Readership Age |
BISAC | social science / anthropology / cultural
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 2 729.95
Price | R 2 456.95
| on special |
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
|
|
|
