When Liberal Peacebuilding Fails: Paradoxes of Implementing Ownership and Accountability in the Integrated Approach
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When Liberal Peacebuilding Fails : Paradoxes of Implementing Ownership and Accountability in the Integrated Approach. / Philipsen, Lise.
In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 8, No. 1, 19.03.2014, p. 42-67.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - When Liberal Peacebuilding Fails
T2 - Paradoxes of Implementing Ownership and Accountability in the Integrated Approach
AU - Philipsen, Lise
PY - 2014/3/19
Y1 - 2014/3/19
N2 - As a consequence of the popularity of integrated and nationally owned peace processes, aligning external actors to a national peacebuilding strategy has become part of the recipe for success. Using the case of Sierra Leone, this article engages with the question of what constructing such unified peacebuilding agenda in fragile states means politically. Contrasting the purpose of peacebuilding with the practices through which it is carried out, the article argues that the implementation of a unified peacebuilding agenda to a large extent undermines the liberal pretences of peacebuilding. While the integration of government, civil society and donors works to portray a more ordered society in countries where the lack of such order has been a manifest security problem, it also works to undermine the crucial autonomy of and accountability between them.
AB - As a consequence of the popularity of integrated and nationally owned peace processes, aligning external actors to a national peacebuilding strategy has become part of the recipe for success. Using the case of Sierra Leone, this article engages with the question of what constructing such unified peacebuilding agenda in fragile states means politically. Contrasting the purpose of peacebuilding with the practices through which it is carried out, the article argues that the implementation of a unified peacebuilding agenda to a large extent undermines the liberal pretences of peacebuilding. While the integration of government, civil society and donors works to portray a more ordered society in countries where the lack of such order has been a manifest security problem, it also works to undermine the crucial autonomy of and accountability between them.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - peacebuilding
KW - ownership
KW - accountability
KW - integrated approach
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - UN
KW - peacebuilding
KW - ownership
KW - accountability
KW - integrated approach
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - UN
U2 - 10.1080/17502977.2014.877628
DO - 10.1080/17502977.2014.877628
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 42
EP - 67
JO - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
JF - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
SN - 1750-2977
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 104540180