Conflict, Peace, Security and Development: Theories and Methodologies

269 Pages·2014·3.01 MB·English

by  Helen Hintjens (editor), Dubravka Zarkov (editor)

CONFLICT, PEACE, SECURITY AND
DEVELOPMENT
Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become
central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects
on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global
economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological challenges
in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence, security, peace and development.
Two dominant contemporary approaches are selected for debate on method-
ologies and ethical choices: rational choice and identity-based theorizing. The
chapters are arranged as dialogues around contending approaches, to better under-
stand how the inter-locking fields of violent conflict, peace, development and
security can be researched and understood. The book considers how theoretical
and methodological approaches relate to different ethical and political choices,
including around engagement and intervention in the four interwoven fields.
Theoretical, methodological and ethical issues emerge from the critical reviews of
academic discourses and case-study-based chapters from across the world, includ-
ing Sri Lanka, Ghana, Colombia and Rwanda.
This book is an invaluable resource for postgraduate students and researchers in
Development Studies, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies and Security Studies.
Helen Hintjens is Assistant Professor of Development and Social Justice at the
International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands.
Dubravka Žarkov is Associate Professor of Gender, Conflict and Development
Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands.
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CONFLICT, PEACE,
SECURITY AND
DEVELOPMENT
Theories and methodologies
Edited by Helen Hintjens
and Dubravka Žarkov
First published 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Conflict, peace, security and development: theories and methodologies /
edited by Helen Hintjens and Dubravka Žarkov.
pages cm
1. Peace-building. 2. Conflict management. 3. Security, International.
4. Economic development. I. Hintjens, Helen M., author, editor of
compilation. II. Žarkov, Dubravka, 1958– author, editor of compilation.
JZ5538.C6656 2014
303.6—dc23
2014007065
ISBN: 978-0-415-84481-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-84482-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-74983-8 (ebk)
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations vii
Notes on contributors ix
Introduction 1
1 Conflict, peace, security and development: theories and
methodologies 3
Dubravka Žarkov and Helen Hintjens
PART I
The state of the fields 23
2 Peace, conflict, and violence 25
Johan Galtung
3 Humanitarian assistance and new humanitarianism:
some old questions 39
Tim Jacoby
4 The political sociology of state-building: looking
beyond Weber 52
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
PART II
Economies for war and peace 67
5 Conflict, growth and (under)development 69
Syed Mansoob Murshed
vi Contents
6 Offshore oil in Ghana: potentials for conflict
and development 84
David Naab Aratuo
7 Spaces of memory and intervention: post-conflict
reconstruction in El Salado, Colombia 100
Juliana Villarreal Ramírez
PART III
Identity politics of conflicts 115
8 Identity politics of wars: theorising, policy and intervention 117
Dubravka Žarkov
9 ‘As if there were two Rwandas’: polarised research agendas
in post-genocide Rwanda 133
Helen Hintjens
10 Crafting symbolic geographies in modern Turkey: Kurdish
assimilation and the politics of (re)naming 150
Beril Çakır
11 Law as an instrument of justice? Victim reparations at
the International Criminal Court 167
Clara Angelica Garcia Orozco and Helen Hintjens
PART IV
Methods and methodologies 185
12 Sri Lanka’s civil war: what kind of methodologies
for identity conflict? 187
Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
13 Mathematical modelling and ‘ethnic conflict’ in Colombia:
the impact of the unit and the level of analysis 202
Fabio Andres Diaz
14 Comparing data sets: understanding conceptual differences
in quantitative conflict studies 216
Ricardo Real Pedrosa de Sousa
Conclusion 233
15 Theorising the politics of judgment 235
Jolle Demmers
Index 247
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
10.1 Geographic distribution of villages the names of which were
changed by 2000 157
14.1 Dimensions of conflict 219
Tables
5.1 Conflict and growth in selected countries 70
13.1 Indigenous groups, El Cauca province (2012) 207
14.1 Civil war and conflict data sets 220
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CONTRIBUTORS
David Naab Aratuo is a Conflict, Development and HR Practitioner with exper-
tise in human resource management, conflict prevention and management. He
holds a Diploma in military studies from the Ghana Military Academy, an MA in
development studies (Conflict, Reconstruction and Human Security) from the
International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in the Hague. He
also has an MPhil degree in Human Resource Management from the University
of Ghana Business School. He is currently a PhD student in Natural Resource
Economics at West Virginia University in the USA.
Beril Çakır completed her Master degree in Conflict and Peace Studies at the
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in
The Hague in 2013. Prior to that she studied at Sabanci University in Istanbul and
Emmanuel College in the USA. Her particular interests are in the politics of heritage,
memory and nationalism, especially in Turkey, as well as geographies of resistance and
toponymy (place names), as well as contemporary political theory. She is a Member
of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN).
Jolle Demmers is Associate Professor and Co-founder of the Centre for Conflict
Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She lectures and publishes on theories
of violent conflict, the role of diasporas in violent conflict, and on ethnographies of
neoliberalism. She was academic coordinator of the EU-funded Marie Curie pro-
gramme Sustainable Peacebuilding (2010–2014), and has conducted extensive
fieldwork on political violence in central and southern Mexico and Sri Lanka. Jolle is
currently engaged in writing projects on War Games, Representations of Borderland
Violence, Neoliberal Panopticism, and Perpetual Peace. She is a Fellow of the Centre
for the Humanities (Utrecht University) and is running the Politics of Portrayal
research programme. Her most recent book is Theories of Violent Conflict (Routledge,
2012), which was nominated for the ENMISA 2013 Distinguished Book Award.