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A Requiem for Peacebuilding? Peacebuilding’s Predicament: A Dark Mood Among the Experts

A Requiem for Peacebuilding? : Peacebuilding’s Predicament: A Dark Mood Among the Experts [This chapter describes the ‘dark mood’ among the experts of peacebuilding and draws attention to the paradoxical nature of that mood. Of the various domains of contemporary peace research and peace practice, ‘peacebuilding’ has by far access to the most institutional resources and yet ‘peacebuilding,’ sometimes appears as if in mourning. The comparison with such scholarship as that on ‘pacifism’ or even on ‘nuclear elimination’ is glaring. Although one might argue that these latter projects are more fanciful, that their champions are fighting a losing battle, the optimistic mood that marks those endeavors must strike any observer, especially in comparison with the ‘dark mood’ among a large part of the peacebuilding experts. This introductory chapter will describe this dark mood as it transpires in recent scholarship, identifies the causes of that mood, and reflects on the future of peacebuilding. It predicts the perseverance of peacebuilding and recommends that it adopts a more restrained posture.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Requiem for Peacebuilding? Peacebuilding’s Predicament: A Dark Mood Among the Experts

Part of the Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Book Series
Editors: Kustermans, Jorg; Sauer, Tom; Segaert, Barbara
Kustermans, Jorg; Sauer, Tom; Segaert, Barbara
Springer Journals — Dec 2, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-030-56476-6
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1 –14
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10.1007/978-3-030-56477-3_1
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[This chapter describes the ‘dark mood’ among the experts of peacebuilding and draws attention to the paradoxical nature of that mood. Of the various domains of contemporary peace research and peace practice, ‘peacebuilding’ has by far access to the most institutional resources and yet ‘peacebuilding,’ sometimes appears as if in mourning. The comparison with such scholarship as that on ‘pacifism’ or even on ‘nuclear elimination’ is glaring. Although one might argue that these latter projects are more fanciful, that their champions are fighting a losing battle, the optimistic mood that marks those endeavors must strike any observer, especially in comparison with the ‘dark mood’ among a large part of the peacebuilding experts. This introductory chapter will describe this dark mood as it transpires in recent scholarship, identifies the causes of that mood, and reflects on the future of peacebuilding. It predicts the perseverance of peacebuilding and recommends that it adopts a more restrained posture.]

Published: Dec 2, 2020

Keywords: Peacebuilding; Intellectual mood; Crisis; Restraint

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