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Title:Peacebuilding: imperialism's new disguise?
Authors:Schellhaas, ConstanzeISNI
Seegers, AnnetteISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:African Security Review
Volume:18
Issue:2
Pages:2-15
Language:English
Geographic term:developing countries
Subjects:peacebuilding
imperialism
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2009.9627524
Abstract:Peacebuilding has been promoted as a new international paradigm guided by humanitarian values and with the objective of bringing peace and justice to war-torn countries. Critics say, however, that peacebuilding is a form of imperialism designed to serve the interests of the powerful in the Bretton Woods system by pacifying and even recolonizing the countries of the South. The present authors assess these perspectives to better understand the main issues and implications of this unfolding debate. They show that, despite the appearance of something new, peacebuilding has the same assumptions as modernization theory, the Bretton Woods path of development. Most peacebuilding literature, by being nonreflexive, helps legitimize this dominant ideology. Notes, ref., sum. (p. V). [Journal abstract]
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