PS 2A03 (2010) Lecture 3: Peace Studies & Peacebuilding

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Monday 20 September 2010

Lecture 3: Peace Studies & Peacebuilding

PS 2A03: Conflict Transformation

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Broader goals...Peace Studies & Peacebuilding

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Outline

Within and without

Prescription

Standpoint theory

Paradigms

StrategicPeacebuilding

Waging nonviolence



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There is no road to peace, peace is the road.

Abraham Johannes Muste



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Within and without are one. The inward potential, andthe outward act, are two faces of humanity, and theyboth come into fruition with other humans, and inrelationship with the state of being.

Elise Boulding (1992)



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Intra & inter person

Become aware of our

own isms

Take ownership of ourown isms

Our barriers to

transformation

Self-awareness, changeand transformation



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Prescription

Is not setting goals a good thing?

Limitations?



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Prescription

Defined ends

Ends defined based on normative or hegemonicontology

A form on colonisation



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...it is useful to reflect on our epistemologicalassumptions of cultural conventions concerning ways of

knowing may actually influence not only the theorieswe formulate to explain what is, but also ouranticipations or images of what might be.

Francis P. Hutchinson (1996)



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Prescription as disciplinary

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri (2000)

Disciplinary power rules in effect by structuring the

parameters and limits of thought and practice,sanctioning and prescribing normal and/or deviantbehaviors.



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Standpoint theory

Emerges from our situatedness.

Social constituted and constructed.

Donna Haraway (1990)



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[in a room in a large midwestern university] There were two pictures on

the wall. One was a University baseball team from many years ago22

white men wearing their team uniforms. The other a picture was of a

science lab class14 students, 13 white men and 1 white women

In total I had 35 white men and 1 white women on the walls of my room.

This clearly tells me whos in charge at this university, I said to myself,

and it would probably send a message to many people of color and

white women who stayed in that room that they could expect to be

excluded from the culture of power in this institution.

Paul Kivel (2002)



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What do yousee?

A younger women?

An older women?



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What do you see?



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Copernican revolution

Einstein's theories of

relativity on Newtonian

mechanics

Quantum theory

Ideas on perpetual motion

(future?)

Paradigm shifts

Thomas Kuhn (1962)



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Prescription as colonisation

The processes involved in legitimising a world gradientof structural violence in which attenuated images of the

future are propagated...

Colonisation in this broader sense connotesdomestication or impoverishment of social imagination.




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In other words, colonisation in this broader sense

concerns restrictions on creative thought and creativeaction in relation the potential reality.




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Pre-defined terms Set time-frames

Resolution as prescription



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Strategic Peacebuilding

Requires clear goals

Building social capital

Internationalist

Targets structural violence



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Waging conflict nonviolently

Inclusive and non-exclusionary

Builds further capacity and increases social capital

Mobilise social capital

Strategic nonviolence



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An ounce of violence prevention is worth a pound of

post-violence peacebuilding

Lisa Schrich (2004)



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Persuasion and coercion

Consent andcoercion

Persuasion = consent

Nonviolent coercive

peacebulding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnhL8i9zYOY



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Summary

Inward potential, outward act


Standpoints

Paradigms



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Citations & further reading

Elizabeth Boulding (1992)

Donna Haraway (1990) Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of

Modern Science, Routledge.

Francis P. Hutchinson (1996) Educating beyond violent futures, Routledge.

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri (2000) Empire, Harvard University Press.

Paul Kivel (2002) Uprooting Racismhow white people can work for racial justice, New

Society Publishers.

Thomas S Khun (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of ChicagoPress.

Lisa Schirch (2004) The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding, Good Books.

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