Randazzo, Elisa. 2021. “The Local, the ‘Indigenous’ and the Limits of Rethinking Peacebuilding.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15, no. 2: 141-160.

gmb20
Wednesday 6 April 2022

This article advocates the study of relationality where interactions and relations between both internal and external actors are not “already established” but are, instead, co-constitutive. It asserts the need to move beyond the “local turn”, which tokenizes local ownership in peacebuilding, by engaging with indigenous knowledge, customs, and structures. In doing so, peacebuilders effectively challenge their own foundational assumptions and conceptualizations of peace and peacebuilding, thereby better equipping them to avoid “othering” the very communities they seek to help.

Posted in

Related topics

Share this story


Leave a reply

By using this form you agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website.