Coordinated ethnographic peace research

Assessing Complex Peace Interventions Writ Large and Over Time

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5813745
AutoresGearoid Millar (0000-0002-0069-9742, University of Aberdeen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen9
Número2
Páginas145-159
Fecha de publicación2021-03-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPeacebuilding (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2164-7259 • E-ISSN: 2164-7267
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21647259.2021.1896854
OpenAlexW3085199064
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas15

Post-conflict interventions are often promoted for their presumed positive long-term influence on peace and justice. Concerns linger, however, that they can also let the state off the hook by replacing, and thereby undermining, its capacity over time. Unfortunately, scholarly research assessing the long-term influence of post-conflict interventions is rare, and practitioner evaluations are primarily short-term processes regarding individual, temporally bounded projects. This paper explores the potential of, and challenges to, coordinated ethnographic peace research for assessing the longer-term influences of post-conflict interventions writ large on state capacity. A key challenge is identified in the complex interactions between projects implemented a) in parallel, b) at different scales, and/or c) in different time periods; which together mean that any influence observed may be overdetermined and hard to link back to a specific peace or justice project. But, as will be argued, coordinated ethnographic peace research provides hope for overcoming these challenges

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