The peacebuilder’s contract: How external statebuilding reinforces weak statehood
The peacebuilder’s contract: How external statebuilding reinforces weak statehood
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和平建设者的契约:外部国家建设如何强化弱国家地位
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2009
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C. Zürcher
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M. Barnett;C. Zürcher
Complex peacebuilding operations are reasonably successful at ending violence. Yet they generally aspire to do more than end violence – they also intend to remove the root causes of violence and create the conditions for a positive peace. It is not enough that former combatants go to their respective corners, disarm, or recognize that a resumption of violence will generate more costs than benefits. In order for there to be a stable peace, war-torn societies must develop the institutions, intellectual tools, and civic culture that generates the expectation that individuals and groups will settle their conflicts through non-violent means. Peacebuilders seek to remove the root causes of violence and create this pacific disposition by investing these postconflict societies with various qualities, including democracy in order to reduce the tendency toward arbitrary power and give voice to all segments of society; the rule of law in order to reduce human rights violations; a market economy free from corruption in order to discourage