Transitional Justice 2001F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Inequality Of Bargaining Power, Structural Violence, Peacebuilding
6 Nov 2016
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Definition: actions that identify and support structures that will tend to strengthen and solidify peace to avoid a relapse into conflict. Negative peace: absence of direct and organized violence between human groups. Positive peace: eradication of the root causes of conflict (being structural violence) Horizontal violence is carried out between equal parties. Vertical violence happens between unequal parties happens when someone who is bigger" causes structural problems and inequalities peacekeeping. Peacemaking: something like conflict resolution tends to focus only on elites, an elite level approach that brings together heads of parties in conflict: does nothing for civilians on the ground. Peacebuilding: fixing structural and systemic issues of conflict. Sees peacekeeping & peacemaking as not enough peacemaking peacebuilding instead peacebuilding is the answer there is debate over peacebuilding: more than elimination of armed conflict. Some argue we need to draw a line between peacebuilding and development. Ngo"s: ngo"s often contribute more to peacebuilding, (4) democratization and development bring challenges.
