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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levy, Naomi

Titel

International Peacebuilding and the Politics of Identity: Lessons from Social Psychology using the Bosnian Case

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2014-01, Vol.8 (1), p.68-90

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article argues that international peacebuilding efforts must be understood as identity-building projects and applies what we know from social psychology about identity processes to post-conflict peacebuilding. It argues that international peacebuilders must pay careful attention to the relationship between the multiple sources of identity from which individuals draw their self-concepts, such as their ethno-national belonging and their citizenship. Using qualitative evidence from field research on international interventions in post-conflict education reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the decade following Dayton, the article contends that the international community's efforts on the ground entrenched ethno-national group boundaries while simultaneously challenging the distinctiveness of these ethno-national identities. As a result, rather than being sites of peacebuilding, the schools of Bosnia-Herzegovina became sites of heightened tensions and controversy.