Abstract
The lessening likelihood and the often-sobering outcomes of comprehensive national peace processes directed attention to local peacemaking in recent years. Difficult to distinguish and define, local peace agreements work on a broad range of issues and engage a multitude of diverse actors. Local peace agreements construct a world of peacemaking that contradicts an ordered and levelled understanding of conflict. Instead, they reveal hybrid conflictscapes that are enmeshed in ways analytically hard to distinguish. In such an environment, local peace agreements can employ various functions: they can connect and strategise relationships between actors, mitigate and manage conflict settings, or disconnect localities or communities from the broader conflict landscape. In doing so, they do not necessarily work towards a linear and sequenced resolution of a conflict but towards dissolving it by undermining the conflict’s logics and conditions.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 122-137 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Peacebuilding |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 9 Feb 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Peacebuilding. Pospisil, J 2022, 'Dissolving conflict: Local peace agreements and armed conflict transitions', Peacebuilding, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2022.2032945It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Funder
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)Keywords
- local peacebuilding
- peacemaking
- peacebuidling
- conflict resolution
- peace process
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
