Building Peace for the Pluriverse

Decolonizing Peace Activism and Ancestral Epistemologies in Colombia
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-6058-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

Building Peace for the Pluriverse explores how Indigenous, Afrocolombian, Black, Palenquero, Raizal, and Rrom activists in Colombia reshape state-led peacebuilding by challenging coloniality in peacebuilding and asserting ancestral epistemologies and worldings.

The book traces activists’ efforts in the wake of the 2016 peace agreement between FARC-EP and the Colombian government and the ethnic chapter included in it to build a peace that protects the pluriverse, grounded in ancestral ontologies and rooted epistemic resistance.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic collaboration with 22 ancestral activists, the book explores how they confront institutional barriers, redefine violence, and build a pluriversal peace that includes the more-than-human, highlighting their role as key experts for peacebuilding.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cárdenas, María

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Broadening our Horizon for Peace: Multidimensional Violence in Colombia and the 3 Cs

3. Why Listen to Ancestral Activists? Rooted Ontologies and Epistemic Resistance as Peace Expertise

4. Overcoming Exclusion in Participatory, but Liberal Peace Negotiations

5. Articulation as Decolonizing and Pluriversal Peacebuilding Practice

6. Pluriversality in Colombian Peacebuilding Institutions

7. Peacebuilding Institutions as Sites of Coloniality and Resistance

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

María Cárdenas is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, with a professional background in peacebuilding.