Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations
Title | Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Zanker, Franzisca |
Number of Pages | 236 |
Publisher | Routledge |
City | New York |
Abstract | The aim of this book is to unpack the meaning of legitimacy for the population in peacebuilding processes and the relationship this has with civil society involvement. There is a growing consensus for addressing local concerns in peacebuilding, with the aim of ensuring local ownership. This book focuses on two case studies of negotiations that, respectively, ended a long civil war in Liberia in 2003 and ended the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008. It argues that civil society involvement is conceptually insufficient to show a multidimensional understanding of legitimacy. Instead, the book shows a complex picture of legitimate peace negotiations, based on outcome and participation-based characteristics with the involvement of both "guarantors" of legitimacy and a more general civic agency which includes the general population. Through forms of participative communication, the passive audience become active stakeholders in the construction of legitimacy. |
URL | https://www.routledge.com/Legitimacy-in-Peacebuilding-Rethinking-Civil-Society-Involvement-in-Peace/Zanker/p/book/9781138685376 |
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