Beschreibung:
Most recent works about the efforts of local communities caught up in a civil war have focused on their efforts to remain places of security and safety from the violence that surrounds them-neutral peace communities or zones. This book, in contrast, focuses on local peace communities facing new challenges and opportunities once a peace agreement has been signed at the national level, such as those in South Africa, the Philippines, Burundi, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the present peace process in Colombia between the FARC and the Colombian Government. The communities' task is to make a stable and durable peace in the aftermath of a violent civil war and a deal on which local people have usually had little or no influence. Such agreements seek to involve them in both short and longer term peace-building, and expect local communities to cope with problems of armed ex-combatants, IDPs and refugees, law and order in the absence of much state presence, high unemployment and the need for widespread and massive reconstruction of physical infrastructure damaged or destroyed during the war. How local communities have coped with the demands of "e;peace"e; is thus the theme that runs through each of these individual chapters, written by authors with direct experience of grassroots communities struggling with such "e;problems of peace."e; ?
Most recent works about the efforts of local communities caught up in a civil war have focused on their efforts to remain places of security and safety from the violence that surrounds them—neutral peace communities or zones. This book, in contrast, focuses on local peace communities facing new challenges and opportunities once a peace agreement has been signed at the national level, such as those in South Africa, the Philippines, Burundi, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the present peace process in Colombia between the FARC and the Colombian Government. The communities’ task is to make a stable and durable peace in the aftermath of a violent civil war and a deal on which local people have usually had little or no influence. Such agreements seek to involve them in both short and longer term peace-building, and expect local communities to cope with problems of armed ex-combatants, IDPs and refugees, law and order in the absence of much state presence, high unemployment and the need for widespread and massive reconstruction of physical infrastructure damaged or destroyed during the war. How local communities have coped with the demands of “peace” is thus the theme that runs through each of these individual chapters, written by authors with direct experience of grassroots communities struggling with such “problems of peace.”
1. The Problems Peace Can Bring.- 2. Assuming Peace at the Beginning of the Post-Agreement: The Case of the “Women Weavers of Life” in Putumayo, Colombia.- 3. Bridges, Paths or Crossroads? The Magdalena Medio Development and Peace Program before and after the Havana Accord.- 4. Mobilizing to Counter Post-agreement Security Challenges: The Case of the “Humanitarian Accord Now” in Chocó.- 5. Samaniego after the 2016 Peace Agreement: Between Hope and Fear.- 6. The Illusion of Peace: Rural Colombia in the Post-Agreement. The Case of Policarpa.- 7. Rural Human Networks in Granada: the Challenges of Sustaining Peace Infrastructures in a Post-Agreement Phase.- 8. Local Peace Committees and How They Relate to Governments and Peace Agreements: Five Examples from Africa.- 9. Whose peace agenda first? Unravelling the tensions between national peace processes and local peacebuilding in Burundi.- 10. Constant Motion: Multi-Dimensional Peacebuilding for Peace Processes.- 11. Uneven Peace Infiltration: Two Case Studies of Rebel-Led Community Peace Initiatives in the Bangsamoro.- 12. Local Peace Roles in Post-Agreement Nominal Peace and Continuing Conflict./
