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Legitimacy in Peacebuilding

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Legitimacy in Peacebuilding book

Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations

Legitimacy in Peacebuilding

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Legitimacy in Peacebuilding book

Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations
ByFranzisca Zanker
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 13 September 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543260
Pages 236 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315543260
SubjectsPolitics & International Relations
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Zanker, F. (2018). Legitimacy in Peacebuilding. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543260

The book offers a critical analysis of legitimacy in peacebuilding, with a focus on peace negotiations and civil society participation in particular.

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. Moreover, scholars have noted a relationship between civil society inclusion in peace negotiations and legitimacy. Yet, the very idea of legitimacy remains a black box. Using data from original empirical fieldwork – including over 100 semi-structured interviews and 12 focus group discussions – the 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. This has repercussions for how we think about civil society and peacebuilding more generally.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies and IR in general.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|24 pages

Introduction

ByFranzisca Zanker

chapter 2|28 pages

Unpacking legitimacy

An analytical framework for legitimate peace negotiations
ByFranzisca Zanker

chapter 3|32 pages

Peace negotiations in Liberia and Kenya

ByFranzisca Zanker

chapter 4|45 pages

A voice for the voiceless

Civil society activism in Liberia
ByFranzisca Zanker

chapter 5|43 pages

Silencing the choirmasters

The Kenyan National Dialogue and Reconciliation
ByFranzisca Zanker

chapter 6|23 pages

A multidimensional view of legitimacy

ByFranzisca Zanker

chapter 7|16 pages

Emancipatory peacebuilding and civic agency

ByFranzisca Zanker
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