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Building Pathways to Peace

Building Pathways to Peace
  • State–Society Relations and Security Sector Reform
  • Nadine Ansorg, Sabine Kurtenbach
  • Published online:
    21 November 2023
    Print publication:
    07 December 2023
    • Element
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  • SSR is a key element of the transitions out of war, aiming at the establishment of accountable and legitimate institutions able to prevent and sanction the use of violence. While recognizing the need to include local actors, donor policies still focus mostly on the state as a provider of security. Second generation SSR has emphasized the need to include local communities and recognize the existence of non-state actors in the provision of security and justice. However, recognition is not enough. This Element promotes a radical re-think of SSR in the context of conflict and war. Guiding question for the considerations is how can security sector reform be set up and implemented to contribute to constructive and inclusive state-society relations, and build the path to long-lasting peace? This Element argues that a focus on functional equivalents, minorities, gender, and human rights is key for the design, implementation, and success of SSR.

  • 14 - Envisioning PeaceǀTransforming Conflict

  • from Part VI - The Locality Paradigm
  • Edited by Henry F. Carey, Georgia State University
  • Book:
    Peacebuilding Paradigms
    Published online:
    16 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 241-254

  • Summary

    This essay develops a conceptual frame for the analysis of peace under a comparative area perspective.I discussthe main concepts (peace, violence, conflict) and assess them in relation to four main theoretical schools (realism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, critical), demonstrating in the process how a global approach to peace resolves many of the difficulties these theoretical schools encounter by placing specific emphasis on the need to focus a lens on both international and national dynamics across cases. I also address the problem of reliable comparable date and suggest that a comparative area studies approach may be preferable as a means to measure the potential for and progress toward peace.I provide evidence for the added value of such a perspective based on an analysis of peace in Latin America. The concluding section discusses the necessity of a hybrid outlook on peace, which requires sustained action on the part of international and local actors toward reducing conditions of structural violence, and it formulates some avenues for future research.