The divided city – a space for frictional peacebuilding
Författare
Summary, in English
Through the concept of friction, this article critically examines how the liberal peace travels across differences, accommodates, as well as is accommodated by the spaces it engages, and how it transforms, enables or constrains local as well as international agency. As the liberal peace interplays with the post-conflict realities three sites of friction are identified and examined in the divided cities of Mostar and Mitrovica: democracy encounters ethnocracy; civic identity meets ethno-nationalist identity; local ownership contrasts with local agency. These sites of friction illustrate different dynamics and outcomes of the unequal encounters between international liberal peacebuilding actors, discourses and practices and local counterparts.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
317-333
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Peacebuilding
Volym
1
Issue
3
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Political Science
Nyckelord
- liberal peacebuilding
- divided city
- friction
- Mostar
- Mitrovica
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2164-7259