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CONFLICT, PEACE, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence, security, peace and development. Two dominant contemporary approaches are selected for debate on method- ologies and ethical choices: rational choice and identity-based theorizing. The chapters are arranged as dialogues around contending approaches, to better under- stand how the inter-locking fields of violent conflict, peace, development and security can be researched and understood. The book considers how theoretical and methodological approaches relate to different ethical and political choices, including around engagement and intervention in the four interwoven fields. Theoretical, methodological and ethical issues emerge from the critical reviews of academic discourses and case-study-based chapters from across the world, includ- ing Sri Lanka, Ghana, Colombia and Rwanda. This book is an invaluable resource for postgraduate students and researchers in Development Studies, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies and Security Studies. Helen Hintjens is Assistant Professor of Development and Social Justice at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands. Dubravka Žarkov is Associate Professor of Gender, Conflict and Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands. This page intentionally left blank CONFLICT, PEACE, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT Theories and methodologies Edited by Helen Hintjens and Dubravka Žarkov First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Helen Hintjens and Dubravka Žarkov The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Conflict, peace, security and development: theories and methodologies / edited by Helen Hintjens and Dubravka Žarkov. pages cm 1. Peace-building. 2. Conflict management. 3. Security, International. 4. Economic development. I. Hintjens, Helen M., author, editor of compilation. II. Žarkov, Dubravka, 1958– author, editor of compilation. JZ5538.C6656 2014 303.6—dc23 2014007065 ISBN: 978-0-415-84481-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-84482-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-74983-8 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Book Now Ltd, London CONTENTS List of illustrations vii Notes on contributors ix Introduction 1 1 Conflict, peace, security and development: theories and methodologies 3 Dubravka Žarkov and Helen Hintjens PART I The state of the fields 23 2 Peace, conflict, and violence 25 Johan Galtung 3 Humanitarian assistance and new humanitarianism: some old questions 39 Tim Jacoby 4 The political sociology of state-building: looking beyond Weber 52 Nicolas Lemay-Hébert PART II Economies for war and peace 67 5 Conflict, growth and (under)development 69 Syed Mansoob Murshed vi Contents 6 Offshore oil in Ghana: potentials for conflict and development 84 David Naab Aratuo 7 Spaces of memory and intervention: post-conflict reconstruction in El Salado, Colombia 100 Juliana Villarreal Ramírez PART III Identity politics of conflicts 115 8 Identity politics of wars: theorising, policy and intervention 117 Dubravka Žarkov 9 ‘As if there were two Rwandas’: polarised research agendas in post-genocide Rwanda 133 Helen Hintjens 10 Crafting symbolic geographies in modern Turkey: Kurdish assimilation and the politics of (re)naming 150 Beril Çakır 11 Law as an instrument of justice? Victim reparations at the International Criminal Court 167 Clara Angelica Garcia Orozco and Helen Hintjens PART IV Methods and methodologies 185 12 Sri Lanka’s civil war: what kind of methodologies for identity conflict? 187 Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits 13 Mathematical modelling and ‘ethnic conflict’ in Colombia: the impact of the unit and the level of analysis 202 Fabio Andres Diaz 14 Comparing data sets: understanding conceptual differences in quantitative conflict studies 216 Ricardo Real Pedrosa de Sousa Conclusion 233 15 Theorising the politics of judgment 235 Jolle Demmers Index 247 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 10.1 Geographic distribution of villages the names of which were changed by 2000 157 14.1 Dimensions of conflict 219 Tables 5.1 Conflict and growth in selected countries 70 13.1 Indigenous groups, El Cauca province (2012) 207 14.1 Civil war and conflict data sets 220 This page intentionally left blank CONTRIBUTORS David Naab Aratuo is a Conflict, Development and HR Practitioner with exper- tise in human resource management, conflict prevention and management. He holds a Diploma in military studies from the Ghana Military Academy, an MA in development studies (Conflict, Reconstruction and Human Security) from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in the Hague. He also has an MPhil degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Ghana Business School. He is currently a PhD student in Natural Resource Economics at West Virginia University in the USA. Beril Çakır completed her Master degree in Conflict and Peace Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague in 2013. Prior to that she studied at Sabanci University in Istanbul and Emmanuel College in the USA. Her particular interests are in the politics of heritage, memory and nationalism, especially in Turkey, as well as geographies of resistance and toponymy (place names), as well as contemporary political theory. She is a Member of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN). Jolle Demmers is Associate Professor and Co-founder of the Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She lectures and publishes on theories of violent conflict, the role of diasporas in violent conflict, and on ethnographies of neoliberalism. She was academic coordinator of the EU-funded Marie Curie pro- gramme Sustainable Peacebuilding (2010–2014), and has conducted extensive fieldwork on political violence in central and southern Mexico and Sri Lanka. Jolle is currently engaged in writing projects on War Games, Representations of Borderland Violence, Neoliberal Panopticism, and Perpetual Peace. She is a Fellow of the Centre for the Humanities (Utrecht University) and is running the Politics of Portrayal research programme. Her most recent book is Theories of Violent Conflict (Routledge, 2012), which was nominated for the ENMISA 2013 Distinguished Book Award.
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