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The Identity Politics of Peace Building looks at civil society and peace movements in the context of the identity-based armed conflict(s) in Sri Lanka. It focuses specifically on the identity politics implied in attempts at mobilizing a movement for peace and shows why civil society groups engaging in ‘peace work’ often fail to increase the sense of security among civilians, and to challenge the underlying structures of war.
Peaceful Identities?
Peaceful Identities?
It is possible to find islands of civility in nearly all the war zones […] There are groups who defend humanistic values and refuse the politics of particularism (Kaldor 2006: 117).
We live in an era of extreme nationalism and violent conflict, where identities are instrumentally politicised, polarised and threatened. Interestingly, this is also the environment within which there is a cry for alternatives—for the promotion of inclusive identities, cross-ethnic understanding and solidarity as a key to conflict transformation. This chapter seeks to enhance our understanding of the ways in which social mobilisation and conflict resolution efforts affect and are affected by identification processes. It starts by exploring the conflicts, power relations and divisions within the peace movement and the actors which advance ...
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