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PARTNERS IN PEACE

Non-State Actors in International Law, Politics and Governance Series

Series Editors
Dr Math Noortmann, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
Dr Bob Reinalda, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
Professor Dr Bas Arts, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), The
Netherlands

The proliferation of non-state actors in the international system over the last three decades has increased the need for a broader theoretical analysis and empirical validation. The series explores the capabilities and impact of non-state actors, such as privately-based transnational corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international criminal organizations, and liberation movements, as well as intergovernmental organizations (in which NGOs often participate). The series seeks to address this need and to deepen the knowledge and understanding of non-state actors by scholars, practitioners and students in the fields of international law, politics and governance. By emphasizing legal, political and governance aspects of non-state actors activities at the international (global or regional) level, the series intends to transcend traditional disciplinary and organizational boundaries.

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Partners in Peace

Discourses and Practices of Civil-Society Peacebuilding

MATHIJS VAN LEEUWEN
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Leeuwen, Mathijs van.
Partners in peace : discourses and practices of
civil-society peacebuilding. -- (Non-state actors in
international law, politics and governance series)
1. Peace-building. 2. Peace-building--International
cooperation. 3. Non-state actors (International relations)
4. Non-governmental organizations. 5. Humanitarian
intervention. 6. Peace-building--Africa--Case studies.
7. Peace-building--Central America--Case studies.
I. Title II. Series
327.17-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Leeuwen, Mathijs van.

Partners in peace : discourses and practices of civil-society peacebuilding / by Mathijs van
Leeuwen.

p. cm. -- (Non-state actors in international law, politics and governance series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7743-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9474-8 (ebook)

1. Peace-building. 2. Peace-building--Case studies. 3. Civil society. I. Title.

JZ5538.L44 2009

303.66--dc22

2009019311

ISBN 978-0-754-67743-7 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-315-59957-1 (ebk)

Contents

List of Tables and Boxes

Acknowledgements

This study would never have been possible without the support and input of many staff members of various NGOs. In the first place, I would like to thank the staff of the Dutch relief and development organization Cordaid, and in particular Lia van Broekhoven, who set up the collaboration between Cordaid and Disaster Studies, and kept it running.

The women of the Sudanese Womens Voice for Peace showed me their work, their life, and through them I experienced southern Sudan. In particular, I would like to mention the women of Narus and Mapel, and Dolly Anek Odwong, with whom I lived through the hardships of dusty and scorpion-infested Lokichogio-outside-the-UN-compound.

In Burundi, the support and enthusiasm of Francine Umwali and Olivier Heck of CED-Caritas were indispensable for my research. Though my contribution to the work of Cordaid Bujumbura was minimal, Cordaid staff have highly facilitated and given zest to my stay.

In Guatemala, I had a splendid period with the team of Pastoral de la Tierra in San Marcos. I greatly enjoyed participating in your daily activities, and am grateful for your comments on my writing.

Most of all, I would like to thank all those women and men in the rural communities who were willing to share their lives and stories with me, and told of their experiences with peacebuilding interventions. Without them this research would never have been realizable.

Finally, I am grateful to the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) that awarded me a 4-year research grant.

To Thea Hilhorst, I extend my deep gratitude for stimulating me to go on with my work, and for your comments on and contributions to many earlier draft and papers that resulted in this book. Many thanks also for my colleagues at Disaster Studies, in particular Bram Jansen.

My deepest gratitude to my parents who made me into what I am, and to Linda without your unwavering encouragement, willingness to accompany me to all the corners of the world, and putting on hold your own ambitions, this research would never have been possible. A final thanks to my children, Emma and Nico, for their joy of life.

Chapter 1

Overcoming Conflict: The Importance of Civil-Society Peacebuilding

Wonderful these houses! They should add mailboxes and house numbers on the front doors and it would be a perfect suburb, a member of an UNHCR evaluation mission said to me when she surveyed the neat rows of identical houses of a resettlement village in Rwanda. It was mid-1999, five years after the genocide and the international community was helping to construct 85,000 houses in 250 villages, for the 2.5 million people that had returned from refugee camps. Radio campaigns promised that people in villages would receive schooling, water and electricity, and that there would be more land available than before when houses were scattered throughout the countryside. If people would live in villages, ethnic groups would live together and become good neighbours, thereby contributing to reconciliation in this deeply-scarred country. However, the people I spoke to in the villages were angry and disappointed. They never received these services and no land to make a living was available. Other people told me they had been forced to move, and felt the programme was a means of government repression (Hilhorst and Van Leeuwen 2000).

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