Original title: Inverze míru: Role společenství zabývajícího se minami perspektivou postliberální teorie míru
Translated title: Inverting Peace: The Bottom-Up Role of the Mine Action Community in Postliberal Peace-Building
Authors: Emery, Rupert Nicholas Ruscombe ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Rosendorf, Ondřej (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2022
Language: eng
Abstract: This thesis explores the role of the humanitarian mine action (HMA) sector in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. Mine action is widely believed to be an integral component of peacebuilding, and its conduct has evolved significantly through the 20th and 21st centuries. Through the lens of postliberal international relations theory, HMA - and its practices and practitioners - is examined as a contributor to peace. To accomplish this a Bourdiesian field analysis of the HMA sector was conducted; along with a more in-depth case study of mine action in Sri Lanka which draws upon data from in-depth interviews and policy analysis. The results shed light on certain power relations in the HMA field relating to knowledge, expertise, and legitimacy; and provides a preliminary exploration of the contributions of mine action to a postliberal conception of peace. These results highlight both the potential of the method, and the need for further ethnographic study.
Keywords: Humanitarian NGOs; Landmines; Local Turn; Peacebuilding; Post-liberalism; Practice Turn; Statebuilding; Budování státu; Humanitární nevládní organizace; Lokální obrat; Mír; Nášlapné miny; Postliberalismus; Praxeologický obrat

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/173978

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