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Introduction: Peace Process and Civil Society Peacebuilding

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The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society

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This chapter introduces the concepts of peace process, peacebuilding, and civil society. This chapter then presents the relevance of these three concepts to the context of the Korean conflict. Korean civil society emerged in the resistance to Japanese colonial rule. Compared to the restricted civic space in North Korea, South Korea saw significant growth of civil society activities amid the struggle against the dictatorships, and since democratisation in the late 1980s, South Korean civil society has initiated diverse peacebuilding activities. During this time, the Korean peace process made several breakthroughs, but eventually broke down in 2010. This chapter suggests the needs to study the durability of the Korean peace process, and the possible contribution of civil society peacebuilding to the peace process.

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Kim, D.J. (2019). Introduction: Peace Process and Civil Society Peacebuilding. In: The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society . Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97100-1_1

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