ID | 097668 |
Title Proper | Peacebuilding |
Other Title Information | imperialism's new disguise? |
Language | ENG |
Author | Schellhaas, Constanze ; Seegers, Annette |
Publication | 2009. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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 recolonising the countries of the South. We assess these perspectives to better understand the main issues and implications of this unfolding debate. Despite the appearance of something new, peacebuilding has the same assumptions as modernisation theory, the Bretton Woods path of development. Most peacebuilding literature, by being nonreflexive, helps legitimise this dominant ideology. |
`In' analytical Note | African Security Review Vol. 18, No. 2; Jun 2009: p.2-15 |
Journal Source | African Security Review Vol. 18, No. 2; Jun 2009: p.2-15 |
Key Words | Peacebuilding ; Imperialism ; Development ; Modernisation ; South |