Shaping Peace in Kosovo, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Series

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book offers a critical account of the international missions in Kosovo and traces the effectiveness of fluid forms of interventionism. It also explores the co-optation of peace by ethno-nationalist groups and explores how their contradictory perception of peace produced an ungovernable peace, which has been manifested with intractable ethnic antagonisms, state capture, and ignorance of the root causes, drivers, and consequences of the conflict. Under these conditions, prospects for emancipatory peace have not come from external actors, ethno-nationalist elite, and critical resistance movements, but from local and everyday acts of peace formation and agnostic forms for reconciliation. The book proposes an emancipatory agenda for peace in Kosovo embedded on post-ethnic politics and joint commitments to peace, a comprehensive agenda for reconciliation, people-centred security, and peace-enabling external assistance.

Provides first local critical perspective of peacebuilding and statebuilding in post-conflict Kosovo Offers a timely and vivid critique of international fluid interventionism and externally-imposed policies of peacebuilding and statebuilding Offers a viable agenda for an emancipatory peace in Kosovo