ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book aims to contribute the conceptualisation of peacebuilding by unpacking the historical unity of discourse granted by a generational view of peacebuilding. It examines the status of the academic debates on the subject of peacebuilding in order to rekindle a sense of contestation on the matter of the history and development of the narratives of peacebuilding. Whilst one of the principal aims of this book is to challenge the establishment of uncontested assumptions regarding the unproblematic nature of the local turn, the argument put forward here did not aim to objectively critique the feasibility, or desirability, of the local turn. The book further aims to unsettle some of the 'uncritical' assumptions within the local turn which have remained untouched behind the local turn's more visible emancipatory facade.
