Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance by Roberts David;

Author:Roberts, David; [Roberts, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

The key mantras of orthodox peacebuilding are grounded in the experience and development of Europe and North America at a particular period in their development when basic needs and rights have been secured, and when there exists a substantial degree of stability. They also occur in line with a gradual professionalization of government, checked and balanced by powerful interests groups and the well-established and hard-won rule of law. These mantras, of participation, ownership and legitimacy, are the fruits of innumerable variables maturing over time and after specific, fundamental conditions have been met that endear the state to society, so bearing a social contract, political legitimacy and durable peace. The right to rule and the relative peace associated with it have been awarded by society because people's lives and livelihoods have been secured with a combination of shrewd political decision-making and technological advancement that has rendered government relevant to the people whose sanction it seeks. The expectation that the legitimacy central to the social contract and political stability can be earned solely on the basis of technicalities like elections may be fuelled by longer-term thinking but it cannot evolve reliably when people are fully aware, in their millions, that the governments they elect and the states with which their distant elites are furnished, are largely irrelevant to their most pressing, everyday lives. Liberalization of the sort advanced in orthodox peacebuilding is more sustainable in, and therefore legitimated by, ‘insured’ societies (Duffield, 2008). Uninsured societies, which characterize without exception the sites of orthodox peacebuilding, will not encourage, sustain and legitimate that which is not relevant to them. A sustainable peace must be relevant and legitimate, and must derive from the preferences of the people in whose name the peace is invoked. Whilst, then, there is enormous effort engaged in organizing elite and institutional conformity with global governance and with substantial audit trails to affirm this emphasis, there is far less interest in generating conditions in which the legitimacy essential to local stability is arrived at, a notion affirmed by the lack of research into or emphasis upon local people in postconflict spaces beyond elections.

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