Peacebuilding in Practice

Adam Moore

Description

In November 2007 Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city's only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar's problems are often cited as emblematic of the failure of international efforts to overcome deep divisions that continue to stymie the postwar peace process in Bosnia. Yet not all of Bosnia has been plagued by such troubles. Mostar remains mired in distrust and division, but the Brcko District in the northeast corner of the country has become a model of what Bosnia could be. Its multiethnic institutions operate well compared to other municipalities, and are broadly supported by those who live there; it also boasts the only fully integrated school system in the country. What accounts for the striking divergence in postwar peacebuilding in these two towns?Moore argues that a conjunction of four factors explains the contrast in peacebuilding outcomes in Mostar and Brcko: The design of political institutions, the sequencing of political and economic reforms, local and regional legacies from the war, and the practice and organization of international peacebuilding efforts in the two towns. Differences in the latter, in particular, have profoundly shaped relations between local political elites and international officials. Through a grounded analysis of localized peacebuilding dynamics in these two cities Moore generates a powerful argument concerning the need to rethink how peacebuilding is done-that is, a shift in the habitus or culture that governs international peacebuilding activities and priorities today.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Bosnia y Herzegovina
• Sociology
• Peacekeeping
• Eastern Europe
• History of Europe
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnie-Herzégovine

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 août 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780801469565
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

PeacebuildinginPractice

PeacebuildinginPractice

LocalExperienceinTwoBosnianTowns

AdamMoore

CornellUniversityPress Ithaca and London

Copyright © 2013 by Cornell University

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2013 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Moore, Adam, 1976– author.  Peacebuilding in practice : local experience in two Bosnian towns / Adam Moore.  pages cm  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 9780801451997 (cloth : alk. paper) 1.Peacebuilding—BosniaandHercegovina—Brˇcko.2.Peacebuilding— Bosnia and Hercegovina—Mostar. 3. International agencies—Bosnia and Hercegovina—Brcˇko. 4. International agencies—Bosnia and Hercegovina—Mostar.5.Brˇcko(BosniaandHercegovina)—Ethnic relations. 6. Mostar (Bosnia and Hercegovina)—Ethnic relations. I. Title.  DR1785.B7M66 2013  949.74203—dc23 2013008334

Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetablebased, lowVOC inks and acidfree papers that are recycled, totally chlorinefree, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Cloth printing

 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

ListofMaps

Acknowledgments

ListofAbbreviations

Introduction

Contents

1.TheStudyofPeacebuilding

2.TheCollapseofYugoslaviaandtheBalkanWars

3.Institutions

4.WartimeLegacies

5.Sequencing

6.PeacebuildingPracticesandInstitutions

7.PatronClientelismintheBrcˇkoDistrict

Conclusion

vii ix xi

1 17 33 57 81 102 116 135 159

v i C o n t e n t s

Notes References Index

171 197 215

Maps

 1. 2007 violence in Mostar3  2. Former Yugoslavia36  3. Shared spaces in prewar Bosnia41  4. Municipalities with the largest number of deaths during the war43 5.BrˇckoandthePosavinacorridor47  6. Dayton Bosnia51  7. Postwar Mostar61 8.TheBrˇckoDistrict72 9.DowokˇcwotnrBn91 10.MostarregionAreasofResponsibility(AORs)130

Acknowledgments

Oneaccumulatesmanydebtsovernearlyadecadeofresearch.Iam particularlygratefulforthegeneroussupportofpeopleImetduring fieldworkinBosnia.AsimMujkicattheUniversityofSarajevohasbeena great mentor and friend throughout the project. This book would not have been possible without the invaluable assistance over the years of Djanan ˇ Bakamovic,LjiljanaCetic,DraganDunjicandGoranKaranovic.Thereis insufficient space to mention all the friends who made my time in Mostar andBrˇckoawonderfulexperience,butaspecialmentionisnecessaryfor ˇ CatoandAdoattheIronHorseinBrˇcko. SeverallocalandinternationalofficialsandacademicsinBosniawere especially gracious with their time, hospitality, and information (including access to archival materials). I would like to thank in particular Jasmin ˇ Adilovic,PeterAppleby,MarkBowen,AmelaBozic,EdinCelebic,Robert “Bill” Farrand, Susan Johnson, Ivan Krndelj, Osman Osmanovic, Roberts Owen,MatthewParish,NikolaRistic,AdinSadic,andGerhardSontheim.