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Part I draws the ‘landscape’ of peacebuilding-as-statebuilding and situates the concept and practice of peace infrastructures in it. The main components of such a landscape are peace-building, state-building, ‘the local’, and hybridity because peace infrastructures are proposed as a hybrid peace-building strategy to overcome some of the difficulties peace-building faces. The Part explores peace- and state-building, and in particular the statist ideology that underpins contemporary institutional peace-building. It ends with a discussion of peace infrastructures, concentrating on the emergent theory formation.
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Oliver Richmond’s (2013) peace formation concept may serve as a starting point for such a disaggregation, for example.
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To be clear, the “relatively high level of coordination and strategic coherence” was quite low and the “relatively clearly defined interests” were quite fickle.
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One might legitimately argue that there is a third position: leave people be. This, however, may not be realistic in a globalised world. At worst, it may expose vulnerable people to more ruthless exploitation—though, again, saying this may be a sign of my saviour complex. There is no clear solution to this dilemma.
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Kovács, B.Á. (2019). Introduction to Part I. In: Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89566-6_2
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