Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF MEHMET AKIF ERSOY UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES FACULTY, cilt.10, sa.3, ss.2255-2279, 2023 (ESCI)
This study examines the transformation in contemporary peacebuilding practice that is carried out and supported at the international level. The peacebuilding models realized to date reflect the 'liberal peace' method practically and conceptually. The liberal peace method includes steps towards the restoration or re-establishment of a political community after violent conflict. However, the need to rebuild isn't only at the level of state institutions; It'd also concern all areas of social and political relations, especially the level of people's daily life. The liberal peace method includes democracy, human rights, rule of law, etc. systems have failed to establish and institutionalize sustainable peace, as seen in Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, and other post-war states. For this reason, it's argued in the study that peace (and security, development, restructuring) in societies emerging from war depends on the 'hybridity' between the external and the local. In the study, it's shown through the UN's East Timor intervention that peacebuilding can only be successful with the interaction between the liberal and the local. Therefore, it's argued in the study that the 'hybrid peace' approach can provide sustainable peace in conflict transformation as it represents the relationship between international norms, interests, local participation, and identity.