Seminário
A Post-Liberal Peace: Infrapolitics, Hybridity, and a Pedagogy of Peacebuilding

Oliver Richmond, University of St. Andrews and Director do Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

14 Dezembro 2009, 14:30, Sala de Seminários do CES

No âmbito do Núcleo de Estudos para a Paz (NEP/CES) e do Programa de Doutoramento em “Política Internacional e Resolução de conflitos” (CES/FEUC)

 
Resumo

Peacebuilding or statebuilding and development praxis have given rise to a need for a 'pedagogy of peace' spanning the dialogic relations of the most with the least marginalised, in humanist terms. This implies peacebuilding represents a praxis which occurs with its subjects in order to produce a synthesis, not for its subjects (or international actors) in order to produce an invasive form of peace: it is designed to increase their independence. Thus peacebuilding, in dialogic and pedagogic terms, should produce a form of action from this synthesis in which its subjects recognise their peace and its legitimacy.
This illustrates via local engagements with civil society, rights, and institutions, how needs, welfare, and culture, and identity are crucial parts of a more contextual peacebuilding. Indeed to reconstruct a fourth generation of theory which recognises and enables agency in its localised senses, such theories and approaches need to recognise where oppression has arisen, whether from local political, social, economic, systems, whether strategic, feudal, patriarchal, customary, religious, or linguistic, tribal, clan, or class. A better understanding of the ways that agency is expressed amongst the subjects of peace should be the starting point for the transformative aims of a fourth generation of peacebuilding. This eirenist approach might then provide a basis  for the mediation of the liberal peace paradigm in context. >From this may emerge hybrid conceptions of peace.

Nota biográfica

Oliver Richmond tem como principal área de especialização e investigação as teorias da paz e dos conflitos e em particular as suas interligações com as teorias das Relações Internacionais. Está actualmente envolvido em vários projectos de investigação na área da paz liberal e tem realizado pesquisa e trabalho de campo no Chipre, Turquia, Kosovo, Bósnia, Cambodja, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, Nepal, Congo, entre outros. Actualmente lecciona na Universidade de St. Andrews (Escócia) onde é também Director do Centro para os Estudos da Paz e dos Conflitos.

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