Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding actors engage and interact with one another. The focus on cultural actors reveals the contested nature of local agency and its potential to challenge institutional policies.

Autorentext

Stefanie Kappler is a Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of St. Andrews and has published on international peacebuilding and local responses to it in Security Dialogue, Peacebuilding, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and International Peacekeeping.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. The Framing of Peacebuilding Agency From a Monodimensional Towards a Spatial Understanding of Agency 3. Why culture? 4. The EU's Spaces of Agency in the Bosnian Peacebuilding Context 5. Local Spaces of Agency in Bosnia 6. Spaces of agency to analyse political transformation: Cyprus and South Africa 7. Conclusion