Reclaiming Everyday Peace

Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Pamina Firchow, Virginia) Firchow, Pamina (George Mason University

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Bringing armed conflicts to an end is difficult; restoring a lasting peace can be considerably harder. Reclaiming Everyday Peace addresses the effectiveness and impact of local level interventions on communities affected by war. Using an innovative methodology to generate participatory numbers, Pamina Firchow finds that communities saturated with external interventions after war do not have substantive higher levels of peacefulness according to community-defined indicators of peace than those with lower levels of interventions. These findings suggest that current international peacebuilding efforts are not very effective at achieving peace by local standards because disproportionate attention is paid to reconstruction, governance and development assistance with little attention paid to community ties and healing. Firchow argues that a more bottom up approach to measuring the effectiveness of peacebuilding is required. By finding ways to effectively communicate local community needs and priorities to the international community, efforts to create an atmosphere for an enduring peace are possible.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-20
Mått150 x 228 x 12 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor206
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108402767

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Pamina Firchow is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Virginia. Her main research interests surround the study of the international accompaniment of communities affected by mass violence, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Dr Firchow has received support for her research from the United States Institute of Peace, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rotary Foundation, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the University of Geneva. She has been working in the peacebuilding sector as a scholar-practitioner for non-governmental organizations and universities since 1999.

'Reclaiming Everyday Peace develops a new approach to measuring conflict resolution - based on local perceptions and priorities instead of external ideas and values. Scholars will appreciate Pamina Firchow's original, novel, and counter-intuitive findings, such as the fact that communities that experience more intervention feel less secure. I also hope that policy-makers and practitioners will heed her call to use everyday indicators of peace during the design, implementation, and evaluation of conflict-resolution initiatives, as this would help address many of the issues that peacebuilders usually face.' Severine Autesserre, author of Peaceland and The Trouble With the Congo