Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference 2022, Nashville.
From Liberal to Military Peace: The rise of a new paradigm in peacebuilding.
This paper analyses how peacebuilding is changing. Over the last decade, peacebuilding has increasingly focused on peace enforcement and on building the military capacity of states in conflict. The broad spectrum of political reform goals associated with the liberal peace agenda are narrowing down to preparing states for war.
These developments have already given limited peace dividends in the short-term, and are not likely to improve in the long-term. They also have implications for the governing of international order. Scholarly debates are divided over the extent of the transformations in liberal peacebuilding and have not sufficiently theorised the centrality of militarism for those changes.
Drawing on the sociology of global militarism, the paper explores new forms of legitimising, organising and waging of military violence as fundamental to understand continuities and changes in the social relations, knowledge production and practices that underpin peacebuilding.
It argues that we are witnessing the rise of a new paradigm that is displacing liberal with military peace. This rise will be articulated by synergising statistical with thematic analysis and the study of past and current interventions in the Central African Republic.
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