Peacebuilding in Practice

Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns

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ID20031267
AuthorsAdam Moore (0000-0002-2650-0543, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages225
Publication date2013-07-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePeacebuilding In Practice Local Experience In Two Bosnian Towns (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/cornell/9780801451997.001.0001
OpenAlexW2264118856
Open LibraryOL26015741M
ISBN9780801451997
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDac8OAAAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited4

In November 2007 the southern Bosnian city of Mostar was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city's only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar's problems are often cited as emblematic of the failure of international efforts to overcome deep divisions that continue to stymie the postwar peace process in Bosnia. Yet not all of Bosnia has been plagued by such troubles. Mostar remains mired in distrust and division, but the Brcko District in the northeast corner of the country has become a model of what Bosnia could be. Its multiethnic institutions operate well compared to other municipalities, and are broadly supported by those who live there; it also boasts the only fully integrated school system in the country. What accounts for the striking divergence in postwar peacebuilding in these two towns? This book argues that a conjunction of four factors explains the contrast in peacebuilding outcomes in Mostar and Brcko: The design of political institutions, the sequencing of political and economic reforms, local and regional legacies from the war, and the practice and organization of international peacebuilding efforts in the two towns. Differences in the latter, in particular, have profoundly shaped relations between local political elites and international officials. Through a grounded analysis of localized peacebuilding dynamics in these two cities the book generates a powerful argument concerning the need to rethink how peacebuilding is done—that is, a shift in the habitus or culture that governs international peacebuilding activities and priorities today

Argument (complex analysis) · Bosnian · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Divergence (linguistics) · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Bosnia and hercegovina · ethnic relations · International agencies · Peace-building · Social conditions

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