Shaping Peace in Kosovo: The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood

Shaping Peace in Kosovo: The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood
ISBN-10
3319510010
ISBN-13
9783319510019
Category
Political Science
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2017-04-05
Publisher
Springer
Author
Gëzim Visoka

Description

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book offers a critical account of the international missions in Kosovo and traces the effectiveness of fluid forms of interventionism. It also explores the co-optation of peace by ethno-nationalist groups and explores how their contradictory perception of peace produced an ungovernable peace, which has been manifested with intractable ethnic antagonisms, state capture, and ignorance of the root causes, drivers, and consequences of the conflict. Under these conditions, prospects for emancipatory peace have not come from external actors, ethno-nationalist elite, and critical resistance movements, but from local and everyday acts of peace formation and agnostic forms for reconciliation. The book proposes an emancipatory agenda for peace in Kosovo embedded on post-ethnic politics and joint commitments to peace, a comprehensive agenda for reconciliation, people-centred security, and peace-enabling external assistance.

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