{"id":7922,"date":"2024-04-03T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:09:17","slug":"give-peace-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7922","title":{"rendered":"Give Peace a Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b> Joshua Craze<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation: <\/b>Independent Author and Academic<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>The Baffler<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Date\/Place: <\/b>November 11, 2021\/New York, US<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Analysis<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 3100<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/latest\/give-peace-a-chance-craze<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/i><\/b> NGOs, Peace building, conflict, Afghanistan, Human Rights Organizations, Democratic Republic of Congo<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:<\/b><\/p>

\u201cAbsurdity is the standard operating procedure for Peace Inc.\u201d This is a scathing criticism of \u201cPeace Inc.\u201d \u2013 a term coined by French political scientist S\u00e9verine Autesserre to describe the role of NGOs for conflict resolution and peace building which the author calls a \u201cbooming global business.\u201d According to the author, \u201cPeace Inc.\u201d has flourished since the end of the Cold War. She was motivated to write this article upon the death of foreign illegal occupation of Afghanistan \u2013 a war-torn country which had turned into a den of foreign NGOs and organizations for \u201cpeace building.\u201d The author claims that donors \u201cspent just over $50 billion on activities that ranged from organizing Afghanistan\u2019s finances to arranging conflict-prevention seminars\u201d between 2002 to 2013. In an attempt to look for an answer to \u201cwhy peace interventions regularly fail to reach their full potential?\u201d, the author quotes Autesserre, who herself has been part of this Peace Inc. \u201cWe required more financial, logistical, and human resources.\u201d She also points to former bureaucrats and diplomats taking up positions for peace building, but much is lost in reporting that follows the traditional format that misrepresents the ground realities. The United Nations is not an exception here. Failure of peace building in a nation like Democratic Republic of Congo, the author notes, lies in the fact that \u201cinternational peace builders\u201d ignore the ground realities. \u201cIf there is conflict, the peacebuilders claim, it must be the result of an insufficient state,\u201d the author writes. The author also wonders how think tanks and the peace builders ignore the bombing and destruction of these nations where they claim to be making attempts for peace. For example, Washington-supplied warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 while the United States Institute of Peace\u2014 a premier US-government-funded think tank which works for peace building\u2014was debating that \u201cit was time to build peace from the bottom up\u201d in Afghanistan. \u201cThe anti-politics of peace-building is part and parcel of a liberalism that tries to neutralize actual struggles. Rather than seeing violence as part of some overarching goal\u2014an end to colonial rule, say, or a revolution\u2014contemporary peacebuilding sees violence itself as the problem,\u201d the author explains.<\/span><\/p>

By: Riyaz ul Khaliq, CIGA Non-Resident Research Associate<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Joshua Craze Affiliation: Independent Author and Academic Organization\/Publisher: The Baffler Date\/Place: November 11, 2021\/New York, US Type of Literature: Analysis Word Count: 3100 Link: https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/latest\/give-peace-a-chance-craze Keywords: NGOs, Peace building, conflict, Afghanistan, Human Rights Organizations, Democratic Republic of Congo Brief: \u201cAbsurdity is the standard operating procedure for Peace Inc.\u201d This is a scathing criticism of 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