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Learning in peacebuilding - mission impossible?
Citation
Goetze, C, Learning in peacebuilding - mission impossible?, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 13, (3) pp. 340-356. ISSN 1750-2977 (2019) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/17502977.2019.1610990
Abstract
A common recommendation in the peacebuilding literature is that missions must learn from experiences on the local ground. Yet, if often remains unclear who has the authority to propose and diffuse new or critical knowledge. The article argues that peacebuilding can be understood as a socio-professional field in which education and professional careers condition the legitimacy to author new or critical insights. Hence, peacebuilding privileges knowledge that has been produced and is diffused in OECD-country research and academic institutions and the business world, most notably in strategic management consulting. Inversely, local knowledge is disparaged and, hence, unlikely to be promoted.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | United Nations, organisational learning, peacebuilding, field sociology, knowledge production and diffusion |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | International relations |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | International relations |
Objective Field: | International organisations |
UTAS Author: | Goetze, C (Dr Catherine Goetze) |
ID Code: | 134137 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2019-07-30 |
Last Modified: | 2020-08-10 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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