| Visions of Peace of Professional Peace Workers: The Peaces We Build 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Van Iterson Scholten, Gijsbert M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030279774 ISBN-13: 9783030279776 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Peace - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship |
| Dewey: 323.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.80 lbs) 285 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the meaning of peace according to (some of) the people who make it. Based on some 200 interviews, it empirically studies the visions of peace that professional peaceworkers from the Netherlands, Lebanon and Mindanao (Philippines) are working on. As such, it seeks to add a strong empirical element to the debate on liberal peacebuilding. The main argument of the book is that amongst practitioners, there is no liberal peace consensus at all. Rather, peace professionals work on a distinct set of peaces, that differ along four dimensions. In five case study chapters, the operational visions of peace held by Dutch military officers, diplomats and civil society peace workers, as well as civil society peace workers from Lebanon and the Philippines are explored and compared to each other. Differences are observed along both geographical and professional lines, but also within each group. |