An Ethnographic Approach to Peacebuilding Understanding Local Experiences in Transitional States Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Series
Auteur : Millar Gearoid
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.
Introduction Part 1: Introduction to the Ethnographic Approach 1. Peacebuilding, Empowerment, and Evaluation 2. Historical, Political, and Social Context Part 2: The Four Pillars of the Ethnographic Approach 3. Peacebuilding as Experiential 4. Ethnographic Preparation 5. Local Engagement 6. Appraisal of One’s Own Implicit Assumptions Part 3: The Details and Challenges of Incorporating the Ethnographic Approach 7. Challenges to the Ethnographic Approach 8. The Distinctive Strengths of the Ethnographic Approach 9. Conclusion
Gearoid Millar is Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research (ICTPR) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Date de parution : 05-2014
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Mots-clés :
peacebuilding; methodology; ethnography; Sierra Leone; DDR Program; Young Men; Peacebuilding Interventions; National NGO; Land Lease Area; Vice Versa; TRC Hearing; Peacebuilding Evaluation; Local Non-elites; International NGO; Quantitative Research; TRC Process; Peacebuilding Projects; Security Sector Reform; Transitional Justice; Emancipatory Peace; Patron Client System; Land Lease Payments; Quantitative Scholars; Rigorous Quantitative Evaluation; Ethnographic Approach; Actual Local Experiences; Ethnographic Evaluations; NGO Staff; FDI Project