Conclusions: Corporeal and Response-able Peacebuilding

Abstract

The chapter summarizes the theoretical argument presented in the book, namely why the turn to the sentient body is valuable for the sake of vitalizing the study of peacebuilding and peace. The events and narratives of ordinary citizens, war veterans, abjected subjects and indigenous activists on which the empirical material of the book has built its arguments speak persuasively of the richness of the body as a site and source of the political of post-conflict, agency, conformation and resistance, and thereby of peacebuilding. Bodies pose a challenge to the study of peacebuilding as they force to reconsider the content of post-conflict political community and the instances of visibility, acknowledgement, recognition and belonging. They invite to create response-ability, that is a prerequisite for sustainable peacebuilding.