Amongst the growing awareness that top-down, externally driven approaches to peacemaking are rare... more Amongst the growing awareness that top-down, externally driven approaches to peacemaking are rarely sustainable the concept of ‘Infrastructures for Peace’ has captured the attention of peacebuilding scholars and practitioners. Building such an infrastructure means establishing and strengthening institutions and capacities appropriate to the national context that are capable of preventing or mitigating conflict and ensuring the implementation of peace agreements. But while many countries are pioneering such infrastructures, supported by international organisations such as the UNDP, progress on a systematic analysis of these experiences and a shared conceptual understanding lags behind.
This paper addresses the lack of critical assessment of the current conceptualisation of ‘Infrastructures for Peace’. The comparison of the various understandings of the concept held by practitioners and scholars and the examination of the key debates within the discourse reveal that there is no firm agreement on the meaning of infrastructures for peace and that further research is necessary.
Amongst the growing awareness that top-down, externally driven approaches to peacemaking are rare... more Amongst the growing awareness that top-down, externally driven approaches to peacemaking are rarely sustainable the concept of ‘Infrastructures for Peace’ has captured the attention of peacebuilding scholars and practitioners. Building such an infrastructure means establishing and strengthening institutions and capacities appropriate to the national context that are capable of preventing or mitigating conflict and ensuring the implementation of peace agreements. But while many countries are pioneering such infrastructures, supported by international organisations such as the UNDP, progress on a systematic analysis of these experiences and a shared conceptual understanding lags behind.
This paper addresses the lack of critical assessment of the current conceptualisation of ‘Infrastructures for Peace’. The comparison of the various understandings of the concept held by practitioners and scholars and the examination of the key debates within the discourse reveal that there is no firm agreement on the meaning of infrastructures for peace and that further research is necessary.
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This paper addresses the lack of critical assessment of the current conceptualisation of ‘Infrastructures for Peace’. The comparison of the various understandings of the concept held by practitioners and scholars and the examination of the key debates within the discourse reveal that there is no firm agreement on the meaning of infrastructures for peace and that further research is necessary.
This paper addresses the lack of critical assessment of the current conceptualisation of ‘Infrastructures for Peace’. The comparison of the various understandings of the concept held by practitioners and scholars and the examination of the key debates within the discourse reveal that there is no firm agreement on the meaning of infrastructures for peace and that further research is necessary.