EU, Conflict Transformation, and Civil Society: Promoting Peace from the Bottom Up?
EU, Conflict Transformation, and Civil Society: Promoting Peace from the Bottom Up?
The European Union considers conflict resolution as a cardinal objective of its foreign policy. It uses a number of policy instruments to promote this objective, some of which affect conflict conditions and incentives at the micro level. Specifically, the EU has recognized the importance of engaging with civil society in situations of violent conflict, but needs to engage more with local civil society to make its policies more effective. This chapter provides an analytical framework to assess whether and how local civil society actors play a role in conflict and conflict resolution and explores how the EU might influence conflicts through its engagement with civil society by setting out three broad and possibly overlapping hypotheses: the liberal peace paradigm, the Gramscian critique, and the disembedded civil society critique.
Keywords: European Union, local civil society, conflict transformation, dialogue, training, funding
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