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posted on 2021-10-25, 08:52 authored by Irene Vélez‐Torres, Katherine V. GoughKatherine V. Gough, James Larrea‐Mejía, Giulia PiccolinoGiulia Piccolino, Krisna Ruette‐OrihuelaThe Colombian Peace Agreement signed in 2016 was saluted internationally by scholars, policy makers and practitioners for encompassing the concept of territorial peace as a means of ensuring local participation in the strengthening of state
institutions. Based on engaged research conducted in the Department of Cauca and
Bogot?a between 2017 and 2020, we critically analyse territorial peace, exploring its
ideation, implementation, and subsequent decline in favour of security and stabilisation.
We argue that the government’s peacebuilding rationale and mechanisms sought to
reinforce the neoliberal state through a constrained participation model, which marginalised the progressive struggles of local communities living in former conflict affected
areas. Without a radical breakdown of pre-existing power structures of exploitation and
domination, community participation in peacebuilding runs the risk of legitimising stateled initiatives that ensure the political rule of capital, strengthen the bureaucracies of the
centralised state, and create new violent disputes without resolving existing ones
Funding
MINCIENCIAS
RCUK-ESRC (grant no. 7912017)
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School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Geography and Environment
- International Relations, Politics and History
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54Issue
2Pages
586-607Publisher
WileyVersion
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Wiley under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
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2021ISSN
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1467-8330Publisher version
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