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Why do international interventions often fail to reach their full potential? Severine Autesserre offers a new explanation and shows how everyday practices, habits and narratives of peacebuilders have counterproductive effects. These everyday elements shape the intervention from the bottom up and reproduce ways of working that have been identified as ineffective long before: one-size-fits-all peacebuilding, expatriates living in their own bubble and dismissing local knowledge. There are, however, exceptions that could serve as a model. By following alternative modes of thinking and acting, some peacebuilders achieve remarkable results. Autesserre will demonstrate the pitfalls and dysfunctions of peacebuilding on the ground and offer innovative ideas and tools to improve international interventions.
Severine Autesserre is Associate Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her book “Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Relations” (Cambridge University Press 2014) is based on extensive ethnographic field work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Cyprus, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste.
BICC and DIE are co-operating in the Johannes-Rau-Research Community, an umbrella organisation for 15 independent non-university research institutes in North Rhine-Westphalia, established in 2014. Being part of the Community requires excellent research on issues important for the future and meeting uniform quality standards.
Programme
Introduction
- Tatjana Reiber, Head of MGG Academy
- Conrad Schetter, Director of BICC
Book presentation
Severine Autesserre, Associate Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University
organized by
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
BICC (Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn—Bonn International Center for Conversion)
Johannes-Rau-Research Community
Information on participating / attending:
Please register for this event by 26 February with sabine.middecke@die-gdi.de.
Date:
03/02/2016 18:00 - 03/02/2016 20:00
Registration deadline:
02/26/2016
Event venue:
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Tulpenfeld 6
53113 Bonn
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Politics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
02/12/2016
Sender/author:
Tanja Vogel
Department:
Stabsstelle Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event53320
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