Annika Björkdahl
Professor
The divided city – a space for frictional peacebuilding
Author
Summary, in English
Through the concept of friction, this article critically examines how the liberal peace travels across differences, accommodates, as well as is accommodated by the spaces it engages, and how it transforms, enables or constrains local as well as international agency. As the liberal peace interplays with the post-conflict realities three sites of friction are identified and examined in the divided cities of Mostar and Mitrovica: democracy encounters ethnocracy; civic identity meets ethno-nationalist identity; local ownership contrasts with local agency. These sites of friction illustrate different dynamics and outcomes of the unequal encounters between international liberal peacebuilding actors, discourses and practices and local counterparts.
Department/s
- Department of Political Science
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
317-333
Publication/Series
Peacebuilding
Volume
1
Issue
3
Links
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Political Science
Keywords
- liberal peacebuilding
- divided city
- friction
- Mostar
- Mitrovica
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2164-7259