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Monday 20 September 2010
Lecture 3: Peace Studies & Peacebuilding
PS 2A03: Conflict Transformation
Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University
Broader goals...Peace Studies & Peacebuilding
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Outline
Within and without
Prescription
Standpoint theory
Paradigms
StrategicPeacebuilding
Waging nonviolence
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There is no road to peace, peace is the road.
Abraham Johannes Muste
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Within and without are one. The inward potential, andthe outward act, are two faces of humanity, and theyboth come into fruition with other humans, and inrelationship with the state of being.
Elise Boulding (1992)
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Intra & inter person
Become aware of our
own isms
Take ownership of ourown isms
Our barriers to
transformation
Self-awareness, changeand transformation
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Prescription
Is not setting goals a good thing?
Limitations?
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Prescription
Defined ends
Ends defined based on normative or hegemonicontology
A form on colonisation
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...it is useful to reflect on our epistemologicalassumptions of cultural conventions concerning ways of
knowing may actually influence not only the theorieswe formulate to explain what is, but also ouranticipations or images of what might be.
Francis P. Hutchinson (1996)
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Prescription as disciplinary
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri (2000)
Disciplinary power rules in effect by structuring the
parameters and limits of thought and practice,sanctioning and prescribing normal and/or deviantbehaviors.
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Standpoint theory
Emerges from our situatedness.
Social constituted and constructed.
Donna Haraway (1990)
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[in a room in a large midwestern university] There were two pictures on
the wall. One was a University baseball team from many years ago22
white men wearing their team uniforms. The other a picture was of a
science lab class14 students, 13 white men and 1 white women
In total I had 35 white men and 1 white women on the walls of my room.
This clearly tells me whos in charge at this university, I said to myself,
and it would probably send a message to many people of color and
white women who stayed in that room that they could expect to be
excluded from the culture of power in this institution.
Paul Kivel (2002)
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What do yousee?
A younger women?
An older women?
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What do you see?
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Copernican revolution
Einstein's theories of
relativity on Newtonian
mechanics
Quantum theory
Ideas on perpetual motion
(future?)
Paradigm shifts
Thomas Kuhn (1962)
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Prescription as colonisation
The processes involved in legitimising a world gradientof structural violence in which attenuated images of the
future are propagated...
Colonisation in this broader sense connotesdomestication or impoverishment of social imagination.
Francis P. Hutchinson (1996)
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Prescription as colonisation
In other words, colonisation in this broader sense
concerns restrictions on creative thought and creativeaction in relation the potential reality.
Francis P. Hutchinson (1996)
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Pre-defined terms Set time-frames
Resolution as prescription
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Strategic Peacebuilding
Requires clear goals
Building social capital
Internationalist
Targets structural violence
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Waging conflict nonviolently
Inclusive and non-exclusionary
Builds further capacity and increases social capital
Mobilise social capital
Strategic nonviolence
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An ounce of violence prevention is worth a pound of
post-violence peacebuilding
Lisa Schrich (2004)
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Persuasion and coercion
Consent andcoercion
Persuasion = consent
Nonviolent coercive
peacebulding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnhL8i9zYOY
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Summary
Inward potential, outward act
Prescription as colonisation
Standpoints
Paradigms
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Citations & further reading
Elizabeth Boulding (1992)
Donna Haraway (1990) Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of
Modern Science, Routledge.
Francis P. Hutchinson (1996) Educating beyond violent futures, Routledge.
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri (2000) Empire, Harvard University Press.
Paul Kivel (2002) Uprooting Racismhow white people can work for racial justice, New
Society Publishers.
Thomas S Khun (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of ChicagoPress.
Lisa Schirch (2004) The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding, Good Books.
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