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IS PEACE END OF THE WAR?? PEACE TECHNOLOGIES IN NEW WARS

Delve into the complexities of modern warfare and peacebuilding efforts in the aftermath of conflicts. Analyzing state formation in fragile contexts, resistance to liberal peacebuilding, and hybrid peace systems, this book navigates the intricate landscape of post-conflict societies. It explores issues of permanence, hegemony, and the dynamics of local and international actors in shaping peace. Through a postcolonial lens, the text examines the interplay between war, peace, and the evolution of hybrid peace systems, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in sustaining lasting peace.

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IS PEACE END OF THE WAR?? PEACE TECHNOLOGIES IN NEW WARS

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  1. IS PEACE END OF THE WAR?? PEACE TECHNOLOGIES IN NEW WARS by Pal TAMAS KIEV, 22.5.2015

  2. PEACE and WAR in WWII • Absolurization – not in WWI • Unsurrended defeat • Long-lasting peace • Exclusion of the defeated from the international system • Moral labeling of the defeated THIS IS NOT WORKING AFTER THE COLD WAR ORIN THE ACTUAL UKR.WAR –AND IN WAS NOT WALID IN THE YUGOSLAV WARS INTHE 1990IES.

  3. STATE FORMATION IN CONTEXT OF FRAGILITY • State fragility in the context of the Weberian-Wesphalian state. But theWestern state is not existing beyonf the OECD • Capacity to performcore state functions –protection. Security, conflict management • Unexpected tests of old weaknesses • Growing number of fragiles –aeond 100 in new rankings – just more tests in the comtemporary international systems • Postüsiviet case osa complicated test

  4. RESISTANCE TO LIBEAL PEACEBULDING • Local agency mobilizes to peace on its own terms • Resistant infrastructureof peacebuilding – different sites and scales, fragmented • Transnational and transversal networks break down local-international binaries • Local ownerships of intrnational actors • Bottom-up proceses of peace-formation

  5. COMPLEX ASSAMBLAGE • Relared, but also separate instittions, actors and networks formed though political contestation involving a range of local and international actors -partly hidden • State structural power – international governentability • Hybrid peace systems –compromises on liberal norms? • Cambodia, Kosovo, Afganistan ülocal is usually ignored – no lastring peace

  6. HYBRID FORMS OF LEGITIMATION Weak states – stong oligarchic coalitions Foreign aids dependency Inclusion of tribal groups, contextual compromimises movinng to post-liberal peace (nor only international non-violence, but local compromises as well)

  7. POSTCOLONIAL UNDERSTANDING OF HYBRIDITY SOVIET INTERPRETATIONS OF WAR Territory as something forever (f.e. Brest) Defense of a closed civilization CVPRUS infantilization of local peace systems Acceptance of local identity hierarchies ( and not only 1936 nationalities, and passport-citizenships)

  8. PERMANENT UNFINITEDNESS BOILING CONFLICT –under low temporature and high pressure Many players – this is not the duality of the war-and peace camps permanent regrouping of coalitions thin ice syndrom Fragmented generational experiences Competions of ware veterans

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