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The Missing Link in Hybrid Peacebuilding: Localized Peace Trajectories and Endogenous Knowledge

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A Requiem for Peacebuilding?

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Drawing on a case study of peacebuilding the District of Aguablanca in Colombia, Aura Liliana López López and Bert Ingelaere introduce the concept of localized peace trajectories and endogenous knowledge in order to overcome some of the oft-noted problems with liberal, and also ‘hybrid’, peacebuilding. They show how, in Aguablanca, endogenous peace infrastructures have their foundations in everyday responses to violent conflict and how these infrastructures strengthen collaboration amongst various actors, both inside and outside the community. Their findings, they argue, should help liberal agents to incorporate local peacemaking knowledge, trajectories and infrastructures into the ways of doing sustainable peacebuilding. Whereas in peacebuilding the approach to the local is an ‘invitation’ to participate in dialogue for policy-making and other purposes; in the search for hybrid and inclusive peace infrastructures, the trajectory analysis supposes an inquiry guided by the need to depart from what already exists, in search for avenues of collaboration between state and civic actors.

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This chapter was prepared with the financial support of the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp.

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    Aura Liliana López López

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López López, A.L., Ingelaere, B. (2021). The Missing Link in Hybrid Peacebuilding: Localized Peace Trajectories and Endogenous Knowledge. In: Kustermans, J., Sauer, T., Segaert, B. (eds) A Requiem for Peacebuilding? . Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56477-3_5

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