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The victims’ voices captured in the previous three chapters are used in this chapter to develop the conceptual argument about the nature, limits and strengths of everyday life peacebuilding. A review and critique is given of the concept of everyday life peacebuilding as it has developed in International Relations Studies. The chapter argues that sociology’s special understanding of the nature of everyday life adds to discussions in International Relations Studies and elaborates the process in positive ways. Examples are given from the empirical data to show how sociologically, everyday life is not only a space where certain forms of peacebuilding are done, but a mode of reasoning, in which ‘getting along’ with one another after conflict as a way of thinking is made normal, routine and everyday.
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Brewer, J.D., Hayes, B.C., Teeney, F., Dudgeon, K., Mueller-Hirth, N., Wijesinghe, S.L. (2018). Everyday Life Peacebuilding. In: The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding. Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78975-0_6
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