The European Approach to Peacebuilding : Civilian Tools for Peace in Colombia and Beyond

This agenda-setting series of research monographs, now more than a decade old, provides an interdisciplinary forum aimed at advancing innovative new agendas for approaches to, and understandings of, peace and conflict studies and International Relations. Many of the critical volumes the series has so far hosted have contributed to new avenues of analysis directly or indirectly related to the search for positive, emancipatory, and hybrid forms of peace. New perspectives on peacemaking in practice and in theory, their implications for the international peace architecture, and different conflict-affected regions around the world, remain crucial. This series' contributions offers both theoretical and empirical insights into many of the world's most intractable conflicts and any subsequent attempts to build a new and more sustainable peace, responsive to the needs and norms of those who are its subjects. "Despite its multiple limitations as a peace actor, the EU has been able to contribute to peace in different countries affected by protracted conflict. Going further than the debate about what the EU should do, the kind of power it represents and the pertinence of the liberal peace building model, this book explores Colombia, and beyond, to understand how the EU has used Official Development Aid to work with Civil Society Organizations and recipient governments for peacebuilding. Castaneda focuses on the European capacities to support multiple transitions to peace and proposes both a handy definition of peacebuilding at the intersection of three dimensions: security, development and democracy, and a framework for analyzing complex dynamics in conflict-affected countries, useful for designing international action. Mobilising tools from peace and conflict studies, development economics, sociology, public policy and international relations, this book will be a valuable resource to a range of scholars, uniquely providing a consideration of both sides of the cooperation programme: the international actor and the recipient society."-- Provided by publisher "Despite its multiple limitations as a peace actor, the EU has been able to contribute to peace in different countries affected by protracted conflict. Going further than the debate about what the EU should do, the kind of power it represents and the pertinence of the liberal peace building model, this book explores Colombia, and beyond, to understand how the EU has used Official Development Aid to work with Civil Society Organizations and recipient governments for peacebuilding.Castaneda focuses on the European capacities to support multiple transitions to peace and proposes both a handy definition of peacebuilding at the intersection of three dimensions: security, development and democracy, and a framework for analyzing complex dynamics in conflict-affected countries, useful for designing international action.Mobilising tools from peace and conflict studies, development economics, sociology, public policy and international relations, this book will be a valuable resource to a range of scholars, uniquely providing a consideration of both sides of the cooperation programme: the international actor and the recipient society. "-- (site de l'éditeur) Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 European Development Aid Supporting Peace....Pages 31-54 The EU Decides to Support Peace in Colombia....Pages 55-78 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 EU’s Support for CSOs: Breaking Authoritarianisms....Pages 81-115 The EU as the Perfect Ally for the War Against Terrorism....Pages 116-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The European Union Learning Process on Peacebuilding in Colombia....Pages 149-161 Peacebuilding on the Ground: The European Approach....Pages 162-183 Conclusions: The European Approach to Peacebuilding....Pages 184-194 Back Matter....Pages 195-256 Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Map; Foreword by Jenny Pearce; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Part I: The European Union as an International Peace Actor; 1 European Development Aid Supporting Peace; 2 The EU Decides to Support Peace in Colombia; Part II: The Reception Side: Antagonist Expectations of EU Actions for Peace; 3 EU's Support for CSOs: Breaking Authoritarianisms; 4 The EU as the Perfect Ally for the War Against Terrorism; Part III: European Peacebuilding as a Process; 5 The European Union Learning Process on Peacebuilding in Colombia Examining peacebuilding through the intersection of security, development and democracy, Castaneda explores how the European Union has employed civilian tools for supporting peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries by working at the same time with CSOs and government institutions.