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¿Empoderamiento o imposición? Dilemas sobre la apropiación local en los procesos de construcción de paz posconflictos | Empowerment or imposition? Dilemmas of local ownership in post-conflict peacebuilding processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine questions of local ownership in post-conflict peacebuilding and make the case that the complex relationship between insiders and outsiders lays at the very heart of contemporary peacebuilding processes.
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Abstract: El articulo examina cuestiones relacionadas con la apropiacion local en la construccion de paz posconflicto y defiende que en el corazon mismo de los procesos de construccion de paz contemporaneos se pone la compleja relacion entre actores internos y externos . Mientras que el discurso de la apropiacion local es cada vez mas parte del vocabulario de la construccion de paz posbelica, hasta el momento la discusion tanto sobre los significados como las practicas de la apropiacion local en contextos de construccion de paz sigue siendo insuficiente. Este articulo representa por tanto un esfuerzo para anadirle substancia al debate de la apropiacion local y senala dos formas de construccion de paz – liberal y comunitaria – que contienen supuestos marcadamente distintos en cuanto al papel de los actores locales en los procesos de construccion de paz. Por ultimo, el articulo sugiere que la busqueda de formas de operacionalizar los principios de la apropiacion local sigue siendo uno de los retos centrales en la construccion de paz contemporanea, y propone como salida hacia adelante una vision de la construccion de paz como intercambio cultural. This paper examines questions of local ownership in post-conflict peacebuilding and makes the case that the complex relationship between insiders and outsiders lays at the very heart of contemporary peacebuilding processes. While the discourse of local ownership has increasingly become part of the vocabulary of post-conflict peacebuilding, the discussion to date on both the meanings and the practices of local ownership in peacebuilding contexts remains underdeveloped. This paper is therefore an effort to add substance to the local ownership debate, and outlines two forms of peacebuilding—liberal and communitarian—which contain markedly different assumptions concerning the role of local actors in peacebuilding processes. Ultimately, the paper suggests that the search for ways to operationalize local ownership principles remains one of the key challenges of contemporary peacebuilding, and outlines a vision of peacebuilding as cultural exchange as a way forward.
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