ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the case of Kosovo to illustrate the shifts and focuses on the way in which Kosovo has been used to frame different approaches to peace building. It discusses shifts and changes in the manner in which Kosovo has been conceptualised. The chapter identifies the shifts which understood as a reflection of the scholarship's engagement with Kosovo, rather than as 'factual' categorisation of methods and means. It reflects on how the example of Kosovo shows that accessing the everyday requires exercising a somewhat arbitrary form of instrumentalisation of bio power. The intervention in Kosovo and its by-products, outcomes and paradoxes, are identified by the scholars of the local turn as signs of the limitations of Universalist and top-down liberal peace building. Kosovo has been considered to be the embodiment of 'a progressive shift' in the international community towards strategies of peace building and state building.
