Engaging with the ‘local turn’ in post-conflict states : a critical analysis of UN peacebuilding in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya

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dc.contributor.advisor Doucet, Marc G.
dc.coverage.spatial Côte d'Ivoire
dc.coverage.spatial Libya
dc.creator Nwaezeigwe, John-Paul Nduka
dc.date.accessioned 2017-05-05T14:17:42Z
dc.date.available 2017-05-05T14:17:42Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.uri http://library2.smu.ca/handle/01/26920
dc.description 1 online resource (60 p.)
dc.description Includes abstract.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-60).
dc.description.abstract The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding represents a reorientation of the process to better integrate local actors in order to promote and facilitate agency and national ownership. Institutional capacity building, promotion of liberal democratic principles, and engagement with locals largely at the national elite level are the key features of the UN’s peacebuilding agenda in post-conflict states. This essay is critical of the United Nations’ (UN) engagement with the ‘local’ in its peacebuilding and development agenda. Such an approach presents a narrow focus on institutional level reforms to promote peacebuilding with a limited appreciation of the local context. The essay argues that inherent complexities exist among the different local actors based on significant social identifiers such as ethnicity and social stratification. It is therefore necessary to problematize the tendency for some practitioners and academics in the field of peacebuilding to create a homogenized portrayal of local actors and their interests in relation to the process of post-conflict reconstruction. The two cases of post-conflict states studied for analysis of UN reporting on peacebuilding are Côte d’Ivoire and Libya. en_CA
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dc.publisher Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University
dc.title Engaging with the ‘local turn’ in post-conflict states : a critical analysis of UN peacebuilding in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya en_CA
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thesis.degree.name Bachelor of Arts (Honours Political Science)
thesis.degree.level Undergraduate
thesis.degree.discipline Political Science
thesis.degree.grantor Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.)
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