A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice
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2024
Authors
Olsson, Per
Moore, Michele-Lee
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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Abstract
Moving from a state of war or violent conflict will require a transformation, but there are no guarantees that transformations automatically lead to peace, sustainability, and justice. This review focuses on the temporary phase when a system is in limbo between the existing, dominant state and a new alternative state. We combine insights from a resilience approach to transformations with peacebuilding and transformative justice studies to focus on three roles that hybrid approaches to transformative and transitional justice may play in this phase, including 1) addressing ‘backlash’ dynamics, 2) strengthening the capacities needed to navigate cross-scale dynamics of conflict, and 3) responding to additional shocks, crises, and disturbances beyond the primary conflicts. Together, these findings advance the theoretical foundations for understanding peacebuilding as a transformative change process.
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We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers whose feedback and engagement with our ideas has greatly improved this paper.
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Olsson, P., & Moore, M-L. (2024). A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 66, 101392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101392