Title Peacebuilding in practice : local experience in two Bosnian towns / Adam Moore

Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : maps Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE Contents The study of peacebuilding -- The collapse of Yugoslavia and the Balkan wars -- Institutions -- Wartime legacies -- Sequencing -- Peacebuilding practices and institutions -- Patron-clientelism in the Brčko District Summary In November 2007, the author was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city's only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar's problems are often cited as emblematic of the failure of international efforts to overcome deep divisions that continue to stymie the postwar peace process in Bosnia. Yet not all of Bosnia has been plagued by such troubles. Mostar remains mired in distrust and division, but the Brčko District in the northeast corner of the country has become a model of what Bosnia could be. Its multiethnic institutions operate well compared to other municipalities, and are broadly supported by those who live there; it also boasts the only fully integrated school system in the country. What accounts for the striking divergence in postwar peacebuilding in these two towns? The author argues that a conjunction of four factors explains the contrast in outcomes in Mostar and Brčko: the design of political institutions, the sequencing of political and economic reforms, local and regional legacies from the war, and the practice and organization of international peacebuilding efforts in the two towns. Differences in the latter, in particular, have profoundly shaped relations between local political elites and international officials. Through a grounded analysis of localized peacebuilding dynamics in these two cities, the author generates a powerful argument concerning the need to rethink how peacebuilding is done - that is, a shift in the habitus or culture that governs international peacebuilding activities and priorities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject Peace-building -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Brčko Peace-building -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Mostar International agencies -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Brčko International agencies -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Mostar SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Ethnic relations International agencies Peace-building SUBJECT Brčko (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Ethnic relations Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Ethnic relations Subject Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Brčko Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Mostar Form Electronic book LC no. 2013008334 ISBN 9780801469565 0801469562 080145199X 9780801451997

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