Deliberative Peacemaking

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-19-898237-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Peace scholars and practitioners have increasingly come to view deliberative democracy, with its commitment to channelling disagreement into reasoned forms of decision-making, as an appealing and empirically promising approach to peacemaking. Deliberative democracy requires individuals to justify the laws they would impose on one another by giving reasons for their political claims and responding to others' reasons in return, drawing on political values that others can reasonably be expected to share.

This volume brings deliberative democracy research to the forefront of peace and conflict studies, and vice versa. Its chapters explore why peace initiatives frequently falter when deliberation is absent, and how tools for deliberation can help make inclusive dialogue productive rather than polarizing. Drawing on cases from international negotiations to national dialogues and local peace initiatives, Deliberative Peacemaking offers evidence-based tools and institutional designs that turn conflict into shared learning and fairer decisions, helping make peace processes more legitimate, inclusive, and durable. In doing so, it demonstrates that deliberation is far from a naïve ideal: under the right conditions, it is a practical resource for achieving just, inclusive, and durable peace.

As the first comprehensive account of deliberative peacemaking, this book maps a growing field at the intersection of democratic theory and peace research, offering empirically grounded designs and practices for making deliberation work even amid deep and violent conflict.

Chapters 1 and 23 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Levy, Ron

McCulloch, Allison

O'Flynn, Ian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I: FOUNDATIONS

- 1: Ron Levy, Allison McCulloch, and Ian O'Flynn: What is Deliberative Peacemaking?

- 2: Juan E. Ugarriza: The Psychological Determinants of Deliberative Peacemaking

- 3: Jennifer Todd and Joanne McEvoy: Deliberation at the Grassroots: Disrupting Closed Perspectives and Resetting Political Agendas

- 4: Sean Haughey and Jamie Pow: Mini-Publics as Tools of Peacemaking

- 5: Alice Siu: Online Deliberation and Peacemaking

- 6: Adeno Addis: Deliberating Towards Trust in Conflict Societies

- PART II: DELIBERATION IN CONFLICT PREVENTION

- 7: Ian Johnstone: Peacekeeping Deliberations in the UN Security Council

- 8: Selen A. Ercan, Jordan McSwiney, Emily Beausoleil, and Adele Webb: Restoring Deliberative Norms after Extremist Attacks

- 9: Laura W. Black, Carson S. Kay, Lori Britt, and Stephen Agyei: Curbing Violence, Encouraging Peace: The Work of Localized Deliberation Centres in U.S. Colleges and Universities

- 10: Fidelma Ashe: Deliberating Constitutional Change: Gender, Borders and Women's Knowledges in the Irish Context

- 11: Baogang He: Can Deliberative Strategic Empathy Mitigate Geopolitical Conflicts?

- PART III: DELIBERATION IN PEACE IMPLEMENTATION

- 12: Joseph P. Helou and Allison McCulloch: Power with the People: Everyday Talk, Informal Governance, and Deliberative Peacemaking amid Lebanon's Interlocking Crises

- 13: Carlos L. Yordán: Deliberation, Strategic Reason, and Incomplete Peace: The Guatemalan Process

- 14: Cecilia Jacob: Deliberative Peacemaking in the Context of Revolution and Nation-building: the Spring Revolution in Myanmar

- 15: William J. C. Smith: Civil Resistance and the Duty to Deliberate

- 16: John Gastil, Yael Warshel, and Idit Manosevitch: Prospects for Peacebuilding through Online Dialogue and Deliberation in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

- PART IV: DELIBERATION IN POST-CONFLICT CONSOLIDATION

- 17: Ron Levy and Ian O'Flynn: Designing 'Deliberative Umpires' for Peace Agreements

- 18: Michael Breen: Deliberative Federalism and the Role Political Parties: A Case Study from Asia

- 19: Anna Drake: Deliberative Consociationalism and Structural Inequality: Power and Conflict Transformation

- 20: Denisa Kostovicova: Gender and Deliberation from Conflict to Peace: Implications of Inclusion and Publicity

- 21: C. R. G. Murray: Memory Wars: Challenging the Tension between Deliberation and Peacebuilding

- 22: Aoife O'Donoghue: 'Too Naïve for Politics': Women and Deliberative Peacemaking

- PART V: CONCLUSION

- 23: Ron Levy, Allison McCulloch, Ian O'Flynn, Shiri Krebs, Emily Crawford, Ignacio Giuffre, Baogang He, Cecilia Jacob, and Kate Ogg: The Duty to Deliberate Before Armed Conflict

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Levy is a Professor at the Australian National University's College of Law, Governance, and Policy. His research draws on the political theory of deliberative democracy to examine how deeply contentious political and constitutional problems can be more effectively managed. He is the author and editor of several books, including Deliberative Peace Referendums (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-authored with Ian O'Flynn and Hoi L. Kong, and The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism, co-edited with Hoi L. Kong, Graeme Orr, and Jeff King (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Allison McCulloch is a Professor at Brandon University (Canada). Her research considers the politics of ethnically divided societies, peace processes, and democratization in post-conflict states. She is interested in how power-sharing governments handle political crises, the incentive structures for ethnopolitical moderation and extremism that power-sharing offers, and how power-sharing arrangements can be made more inclusive of identities beyond the ethnonational divide.

Ian O'Flynn is a Professor of Political Theory at Newcastle University (UK). His main research interest is in the theory of deliberative democracy. Much of his work has sought to apply this theory to the reform of power-sharing institutions in deeply divided societies. He is the author of Deliberative Democracy (Polity, 2021) and is currently working on a project funded by the European Commission Horizon scheme on deliberative democracy and sustainable climate transitions.