Assembling Exclusive Expertise: Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South

242 Pages·2018·3.401 MB·English

by  Anna Leander, OLE Waever

‘In an age where science communication and policy expertise have never been
more important, or more contested, Assembling Exclusive Expertise brings together a
sophisticated and unique collection of studies on this vital topic. With an original
and consistent framework of analysis, a wealth of theoretical and empirical insights,
and an impressive list of contributors, this volume is bound to be a landmark
publication. Fascinating and informative.’
Richard Jackson, University of Otago, New Zealand
‘Thisvolume thoughtfullystimulatesawideranddeeperengagementwiththeidea
of conflict resolution “expertise” by problematizing its anchorage in academic/sci-
entific knowledge. Its emphasis on how local knowledges and practices become
part of exclusive expertise in the context of the Global South is particularly wel-
come. Timely, wide-ranging in scope, Assembling Exclusive Expertise by a dis-
tinguished group of authors, is a landmark intervention in the field of conflict
studies. A “must-read” for the scholars and practitioners alike.’
Navnita Behera, University of Delhi, India
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ASSEMBLING EXCLUSIVE EXPERTISE
This book looks at the worlding of the Global South in the process of assembling
conflict resolution expertise. Anna Leander, Ole Wæver and their contributors
pursue this ambition by following the experts, institutions, databases and creative
expressions that are assembled into conflict resolution expertise in the Global South.
Expertise shapes how conflicts in the Global South are understood and conse-
quently dealt with. Yet, expertise is always and necessarily exclusive. The exclu-
sivity of expertise refers both to the fashionable, the sophisticated and what counts,
and also to the exclusion of some people or views. Assembled from a wealth of
competing knowledges, expertise is always both knowledgeable and ignorant. The
ambition of the volume is to explore how this exclusive expertise is assembled and
in what ways it is therefore knowledgeable and ignorant of knowledges in/of the
Global South.
This work will be of significant interest to advanced students and scholars of
conflict resolution, peace research, mediation and international relations and scholars
of expertise.
Anna Leander is a Professor at the Department of International Relations and
Political Science, Graduate Institute Geneva; Institute of International Relations,
PUC Rio de Janeiro/Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy,
Copenhagen Business School.
Ole Wæver is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, and Director of
the Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts, University of Copenhagen.
WORLDING BEYOND THE WEST
Series editors:
Arlene B. Tickner, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, David Blaney,
Macalester College, USA and Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Aberystwyth
University, UK
Historically, the International Relations (IR) discipline has established its bound-
aries,issues,andtheoriesbased uponWesternexperienceandtraditionsofthought.
This series explores the role of geocultural factors, institutions, and academic prac-
tices in creating the concepts, epistemologies, and methodologies through which
IR knowledge is produced. This entails identifying alternatives for thinking about
the “international” that are more in tune with local concerns and traditions outside
theWest.ButitalsoimpliesprovincializingWesternIRandempiricallystudyingthe
practice of producing IR knowledge at multiple sites within the so-called ‘West’.
International Institutions in World History
Divorcing International Relations Theory from the State and Stage Models
Laust Schouenborg
Fairy Tales and International Relations
A Folklorist Reading of IR Textbooks
Kathryn Starnes
Against International Relations Norms
Postcolonial Perspectives
Edited by Charlotte Epstein
Assembling Exclusive Expertise
Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South
Edited by Anna Leander and Ole Wæver
Widening the World of International Relations
Homegrown Theorizing
Edited by Ersel Aydınlı and Gonca Biltekin
Western Dominance in International Relations?
The Internationalisation of IR in Brazil and India
Audrey Alejandro
ASSEMBLING EXCLUSIVE
EXPERTISE
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Knowledge, Ignorance and Con ict
Resolution in the Global South
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CONTENTS
List of figures ix
Notes on contributors x
Introduction – assembling exclusive expertise: knowledge,
ignorance and conflict resolution in the Global South 1
Anna Leander and Ole Wæver
PARTI
The experts 21
1 Who knows Nigeria? Reflections on conflict expertise and
knowledge generation in peacebuilding practice 23
Linda S. Bishai
2 Experts in an adventure with pirates: a story of Somali piracy
expertise 40
Christian Bueger
3 From expert to expertise: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert’s imaginary
and negotiations in South Africa 57
Vineet Thakur and Peter Vale
PARTII
The institutions 75
4 Worlding conflict resolution and mediation expertise: in the
‘Global South’ 77
Pinar Bilgin
viii Contents
5 Stabilising crises: assembling NATO Defense College expertise
about Libya and Ukraine 93
Trine Villumsen Berling
6 The ‘Singapore School’ and the contested enterprise of
terrorism 110
See Seng Tan
PARTIII
The databases 127
7 Bodies count: the politics of assembling war and violent death
data expertise 129
Keith Krause
8 SanctionsApp as expertise (and exclusionary ignorance) in a
global policy setting 153
Thomas Biersteker
9 Conflict knowledge, Big Data and the emergence of emergence 170
David Chandler
PARTIV
The creative expressions 187
10 Art as expertise? Creative expression in the Syrian conflict
resolution 189
Anna Leander and Donatella Della Ratta
PARTV
Concluding remarks 213
11 Postscript 215
Judith Reppy
12 Conclusion? 219
I. William Zartman
Index 225
FIGURES
7.1 Visual Depiction of French Army Losses in Napoleon’s
Russia Campaign, 1812–13 [Carte figurative des pertes successives
en hommes de l’Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie
1812–1813] 131
7.2 Lethal violence rates per 100,000 population (2012) 137
7.3 Classifications of armed conflict by UCDP 138
8.1 SanctionsApp menu 156
8.2 Commodity sanctions, with indication of likely scope of
effects indicated by size of targets 166
10.1 Still from the ‘Damascene Village’ 193
10.2 Still from Coma by Sarah Fattahi (2015) 195
10.3 Still from Houses Without Doors (2016) 196
10.4 Screen shot of SyriaUntold 199
10.5 Still from La Dolce Siria 202
10.6 The Revolution 204
10.7 ‘Vomit’ by Yasmeen Fanari, cover of the ‘Syria’s art of
resistance’ exhibition catalogue 207