Editors:
- Provides unique insights on how to balance local ownership and international interventions
- Gives voice to a multitude of authors with different perspectives (local/international; researchers/practitioners; etc.)
- A helpful compilation of lessons learnt and best practices on how to tackle the challenging demand of implementing local ownership
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace (BRIEFSSECUR, volume 11)
Part of the book sub series: Peace and Security Studies (PESECST)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Contributions
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Based on the swisspeace annual conference 2012, the publication examines the delicate balance between external interventions and locally-led initiatives. It addresses the question of what “local” means in the peacebuilding and development context; which actors on the ground actually represent the local level and how external actors choose their partners from amongst them. Moreover, it examines how local ownership - emerging as key criteria for any external intervention - is constituted: does this concept only imply local participation or is local control from the outset a must? Finally, it assesses the potential of locally-led initiatives and local conflict resolution mechanisms and their interaction with external interventions. Several authors provide insights on these questions and nuance our thinking about both local ownership and external interventions. As such, the publication aims to encourage critical reflections on this topical debate in peacebuilding and development.
Editors and Affiliations
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Research, swisspeace Foundation/University Basel, Bern, Switzerland
Sara Hellmüller
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Research, swisspeace / University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Martina Santschi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Is Local Beautiful?
Book Subtitle: Peacebuilding between International Interventions and Locally Led Initiatives
Editors: Sara Hellmüller, Martina Santschi
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00306-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00305-4Published: 07 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00306-1Published: 17 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2193-3162
Series E-ISSN: 2193-3170
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 107
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, general