Peace or Democracy?

Peacebuilding Dilemmas to Transition from Civil Wars
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-24758-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Contrary to the common belief that peace and democracy go hand in hand after a civil war, Pereira Watts argues they are, in fact, at a crossroads.

Offering an innovative framework based on Philosophical, Actors, and Tactical considerations, Pereira Watts identifies 14 dynamic dilemmas in democratic peacebuilding, with respective trade-offs. She focuses on explaining the contradictions in modern post-conflict recovery, the challenges facing interim governments, and the international community’s role. Based on an analysis of more than 40 countries between 1989 and 2022 and more than 60 UN peace operations, she presents critical issues that commonly need to be addressed in such scenarios: Elections and Political Parties; the Constitution; Checks, Balances and Power-sharing; Transitional Justice; Human Rights, Amnesty, Truth Commissions and War Crimes Tribunals; Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration; and Media Reform and Civil Society. Solving any of these dilemmas leads to others that shape a complex apparatus for restoring peace and installing a new political regime.

An essential resource for decision-takers, policymakers, international analysts and practitioners in the field of peacebuilding that will also be of great value to students of International Relations and Peace Studies as well as anyone interested in peacekeeping, democracy-building, and state-building.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pereira Watts, Izabela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I Transitional dilemmas, violent democracies and the United Nations’ statecraft 1. The transition from civil war to hybrid peace: 14 dilemmas of peace, democracy and state-building in post-conflict societies 2. United Nations hybrid liberal peace dilemmas: contingent sovereignty, responsibility to protect and moral selectiveness 3.From guns to votes to doves: violent transition with ballots and bullets 4.What role do UN operations play in bringing simultaneously peace and democracy to post-civil war countries? PART II Transitions to political, legal, civil and social orders 5.From war to peace: When elections and political parties promote democracy? 6. When the pen fails, the sword rules: constitution building and power-sharing for divided societies 7. No Justice, (no) peace? Democratic injustice or undemocratic justice in the name of human rights and reconciliation 8. Silencing the guns through DDR and SSR: the securitization of peace or governance of insecure democracy 9. From war to peace: voters but not yet citizens PART III Conclusion and Recommendations 10. From hybrid democratic peace towards an integrated transition: conclusion, limitations and recommendations

Über Autor(innen)

Izabela Pereira Watts, PhD, is a Lecturer in International Studies and Political Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Australia. She is an expert in peacekeeping, democracy building with more than 15 years of experience in international development, including UN peacekeeping mission, UNDP and UN Woman in conflict zones, and several awards.