Transformation and the Future of Post-Conflict Operations: Lessons from Our Nation's Past

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Naething
Keyword(s):  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Future

Back to the Future? Confronting the Role(s) of Natural Resources in Armed Conflict Through the Lenses of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 373-400
Author(s):  
Eliana Cusato
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Sierra Leonean ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commissions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conflict Strategies

Abstract Natural resources are critical factors in the transition from conflict to peace. Whether they contributed to, financed or fuelled armed conflict, failure to integrate natural resources into post-conflict strategies may endanger the chances of a long-lasting and sustainable peace. This article explores how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (trcs), as transitional justice institutions, can contribute to addressing the multifaceted role of natural resources in armed conflict. Drawing insights from the practice of the Sierra Leonean and Liberian trcs in this area, the article identifies several ways in which truth-seeking bodies may reinforce post-conflict accountability and avoid the future reoccurrence of abuses and conflict by actively engaging with the natural resource-conflict link. As it is often the case with other transitional justice initiatives, trcs’ engagement with the role of natural resources in armed conflict brings along opportunities and challenges, which are contextual and influenced by domestic and international factors.

Toward a post-conflict Colombia: restoring to the future

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Aguilar ◽  
Jorge Sierra ◽  
Wilson Ramirez ◽  
Orlando Vargas ◽  
Zoraida Calle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Future

Liminality and Missing Persons

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Huttunen
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
Conflict Reconciliation ◽  
Political Groups

In many armed conflicts, forced disappearances and hiding the bodies of victims of mass atrocities are used strategically. This article argues that disappearances are powerful weapons, as their consequences reach from the most intimate relations to the formation of political communities. Consequently, political projects of forced disappearances leave difficult legacies for post-conflict reconciliation, and they give rise to a need to address individuals’ and families’ needs as well as relations between national and political groups implicated in the conflict. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this articles explores the question of missing persons in post-1992 Bosnia. The processes of identification and practices of remembering and commemorating the missing are analyzed through the concept of liminality. The article argues that the future-oriented temporality of liminality gives rise to numerous practices of encountering the enigma of the missing, while the political atmosphere of postwar Bosnia restricts possibilities of communitas-type relationality across ethnonational differences.

Hybrid Regional Order

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 363-394
Author(s):  
Franklin Obinna
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
African Union ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Future ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Regional Order ◽  
Peace Enforcement ◽  
The One

The un peace operations have undergone significant revisions to calibrate mission mandates in tandem with emerging threats to international peace and security, especially non-traditional security (nts) threats that stem from governance challenges. These multidimensional missions essentially perform statebuilding interventions (sbis) through capacity-building programmes. The future of these missions depends on negotiated political settlements that facilitate the creation of accountable institutions and inclusive societies. Scholars debate the future of un peace missions, especially as it relates to stabilization operations. On the one hand, are the “narrowers” who believe that peace operations should remain focused on stabilizing state authorities. On the other hand, are the “broadeners” who favor people-focused stabilization operations. This article argues for a broad approach. Focusing on the role of regional organizations under Chapter viii of the un Charter, it argues that successive failures by the African Union to implement its doctrinal instruments, particularly the Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development Policy, the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance and the Common African Defence and Security Policy has narrowed its peace interventions in Africa to peace enforcement operations. To be relevant, the African Union needs to focus on the challenges of governance in Africa.

Conclusion

The NGO Game ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice C. McMahon
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Transitional Countries ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Peacebuilding ◽  
Failing States

This concluding chapter first evaluates the future of international peacebuilding, before looking briefly at NGO cycles in other post-conflict countries as well as other transitional countries for additional comparative evidence. The shadow cases identified here suggest that the NGO game is a common transnational dynamic and that it exists in other settings. Scholars writing about post-conflict development and postcommunist transitions and failing states, in fact, observe similar NGO patterns and outcomes. The problems and paradoxes associated with NGOs in international relations are becoming more obvious and recognized, but this does not mean that NGOs will disappear any time soon. The chapter ends with some reasons for optimism about these international and domestic actors.

Grasping the Nettle of Nonstate Policing

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 276-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Baker
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Future ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

For citizens of post-conflict states nonstate agencies are the primary providers of protection; deterrence; investigation; resolution; and punishment in most circumstances. For this reason alone, peacekeeping missions should be evaluating what if anything should be the contribution of the nonstate sector in the future. The paper begins by setting out some of the distinctive features and commonalties of nonstate policing. It then proceeds to examine the arguments for and against peacekeeping missions supporting its activities. In conclusion, it argues the case for the construction of new alliances and the strengthening of existing ones between nonstate and state

Plotting stories after war: Toward a methodology for negotiating identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadim Khoury
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Negotiation Of Identity ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Stereotypes ◽  
Crucial Part ◽  
Structural Theories

Identity is an important factor in international conflicts. As it is a crucial part of the problem, some scholars argue, national identity should be an important part of the solution. Parties to the conflict, they recommend, should negotiate their national identities so as to reach a “narrative equilibrium” that will allow them to overcome national stereotypes, build trust, and sustain peaceful relations in the future. This article evaluates not the merits of these negotiations, but the tools that social scientists have employed to analyze them. Its main purpose, therefore, is methodological. It argues that attempts to theorize the negotiation of identity fall short of their goal because they focus heavily on the notion of negotiation and very little on the concept of identity. To remedy this shortcoming, the article turns to the structural theories of narrative to conceptualize the negotiation of identity as a negotiation of literary plots. It argues that the negotiation of identity is the attempt to move away from two mutually exclusive romantic plots, and toward tragic, comic, or satiric plots in counterpoint. The introduction of plots, the article concludes, provides important insights that help theorize the negotiation of identity in post-conflict scenarios.

scholarly journals Human Rights in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Peace Agreements ◽  
The Future ◽  
Democratic Kampuchea

This article will first consider the decline of human rights in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge’s Democratic Kampuchea regime. This will be compared with the situation in the Vietnamese-backed regime which followed Democratic Kampuchea, and with the post-conflict regime that was established after the Paris Peace Agreements of 1991. In particular, it will examine the different ways Cambodians lost their human rights under the revolutionary socialist regime of Democratic Kampuchea, the postrevolutionary socialist regime of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea, and the neoliberal post-socialist conditions of contemporary Cambodia. The article will conclude with a consideration of the future of human rights in Cambodia.

scholarly journals The Potential of Interactive Negotiated Narratives in Rebuilding and Reimagining Northern Irish Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Zaluczkowska
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future

This research explores the role of the writer in interactive transmedia production through a research project that has been primarily designed to take place within contemporary Northern Ireland. Red Branch Heroes was created, in association with Bellyfeel Productions1, as a prototype for a more extensive fictional interactive web series that will be known as The Eleven. The author developed a game-like scenario where, through their play, the audience influenced and developed character and story elements. The research asks if interactive forms such as transmedia offer any new storytelling potentials to the people of Northern Ireland and how such projects can contribute to debates about e-politics and e-democracy in post-conflict societies. Evidence is presented in this article to suggest that the ‘negotiated narratives' formulated in this prototype offer further creative community-building possibilities, in neutral spaces that can facilitate discourses about the future.

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