Peaceland: Why everyday practices hinder the effectiveness of peace missions

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Public Lecture - JRF vor Ort

Ort/Datum
Bonn, 02.03.2016

Veranstalter

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
BICC (Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn—Bonn International Center for Conversion)


Why do international interventions often fail to reach their full potential? Severine Autesserre offers a new explanation and shows how everyday practices, habits and narratives of peacebuilders have counterproductive effects. These everyday elements shape the intervention from the bottom up and reproduce ways of working that have been identified as ineffective long before: one-size-fits-all peacebuilding, expatriates living in their own bubble and dismissing local knowledge. There are, however, exceptions that could serve as a model. By following alternative modes of thinking and acting, some peacebuilders achieve remarkable results. Autesserre demonstrated the pitfalls and dysfunctions of peacebuilding on the ground and offered innovative ideas and tools to improve international interventions.

Severine Autesserre is Associate Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University.  Her book “Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Relations” (Cambridge University Press 2014) is based on extensive ethnographic field work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Cyprus, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste.

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  • Severine Autesserre, Associate Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University

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Datum / Uhr
02.03.2016 / 19:00 - 21:00

Ort

German Development Institute /
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Tulpenfeld 6
53113 Bonn


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