TY - JOUR
T1 - Shifting Ideas of Sustainable Peace through Conversations in State-building
AU - Olonisakin, Funmi
AU - Kifle, Alagaw Ababu
AU - Ndumo, Muteru
N1 - ’Funmi Olonisakin is Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at the African Leadership Centre, King’s College London, and Extra-Ordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria. Previously, she was Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group at King’s; and worked in the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
Twitter: @FunmiOlonisakin
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0787-6203
Postal Address: African Leadership Centre, School of Global Affairs, NE15, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2R 4BG.
Alagaw Ababu Kifle is an Alumnus of the ALC and Research Associate at the African Leadership Centre and a PhD Candidate in Leadership and Security Studies, a Joint PhD Programme of University of Pretoria and King’s College London.
Email: [email protected]
Postal Address: African Leadership Centre, School of Global Affairs, NE15, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2R 4BG.
Alfred Muteru holds a Masters in Conflict, Security and Development and is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the African Leadership Centre, King’s College London undertaking a PhD in Leadership Studies, with Reference to Security and Development.
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @muteru
Postal Address: African Leadership Centre, School of Global Affairs, NE15, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2R 4BG.
PY - 2020/12/7
Y1 - 2020/12/7
N2 - This article offers reflections on the meaning of peace and peace-building in Africa and proposes a reframing of the state-building¬ problematique. It argues for a shift in analytical lens by providing alternative ways of looking at state-building in order to explore a different approach to peace-building. Thus, the paper re-centres the notion of conversation in the processes of building peace and state. This concept of conversation requires a shifting of the debate from a focus on which institutions, liberal or otherwise, and which policies are most effective for peace, to how inter-elite and society-elite conversation gives rise to, or fails to bring about particular ensembles of institutions and policy outcomes. We analyse the role of political settlement in shaping the nature and outcome of these conversations. We suggest that the pursuit of peace must account for the depth of conversation about the presence, absence or desire for peace as well as accompanying perspectives of state-building across the target society.
AB - This article offers reflections on the meaning of peace and peace-building in Africa and proposes a reframing of the state-building¬ problematique. It argues for a shift in analytical lens by providing alternative ways of looking at state-building in order to explore a different approach to peace-building. Thus, the paper re-centres the notion of conversation in the processes of building peace and state. This concept of conversation requires a shifting of the debate from a focus on which institutions, liberal or otherwise, and which policies are most effective for peace, to how inter-elite and society-elite conversation gives rise to, or fails to bring about particular ensembles of institutions and policy outcomes. We analyse the role of political settlement in shaping the nature and outcome of these conversations. We suggest that the pursuit of peace must account for the depth of conversation about the presence, absence or desire for peace as well as accompanying perspectives of state-building across the target society.
M3 - Article
SN - 1467-8802
JO - Conflict, Security & Development
JF - Conflict, Security & Development
ER -