Hanna Leonardsson

Location

Annedalsseminariet, room 419

Materials

The lecture will be based on my recently published book, as well as one article published in 2020 and another one from 2022, see recommended readings.

Description

This lecture departs from the critique against top-down peacebuilding and what the local turn in peacebuilding has brought to the table. It delves into the example of local peacebuilding in Lebanon, viewed through a lense of "peacebuilding functions" emphasising service deliveries, local interactions and vertical relationships as imperative for local peace.

Teacher's Background

Hanna Leonardsson is a lecturer in global studies. Her research evolves around local peacebuilding, local governance and its interaction with national and international levels of governance as well as trans-scalar relationships of power.

Reading

Leonardsson, Hanna & Gustav Rudd (2015) The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding: a literature review of effective and emancipatory local peacebuilding, Third World Quarterly, 36:5, 825-839, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1029905

Paffenholz, Thania (2014): International peacebuilding goes local: analysing Lederach’s conflict transformation theory and its ambivalent encounter with 20 years of practice, Peacebuilding, 2:1, 11-27, DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2013.783257

Roger MacGinty: Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace, in Cooperation and Conflict, June 2008 vol. 43 no. 2, pp. 139-163.

Ramsbotham et al. chapter 15.

Schulz, Michael, 2008, ‘Reconciliation through education—Experiences from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,’ Journal of Peace Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 33-48.

Schulz, Michael & Ezechiel Sentama, 2020, ‘The relational legacies of colonialism: peace education and reconciliation in Rwanda,’ Third World Quarterly, To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1853521

Recommended Reading

Leonardsson, Hanna (2023) Navigating the local. Politics of Peacebuilding in Lebanese Municipalities. Bristol University Press. Introduction & chapter 1, pp. 1-31.

Leonardsson, Hanna (2020) Vertical Relationships and Local Peacebuilding in Lebanon: The Case of Responsive Waste Management, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 2020 Vol. 15 Issue 2 Pages 219-234

Habyarimana, Jean-Bosco and Leonardsson, Hanna (2022) Speaking up and Being Heard: Local Participation and Influence in Kenya and Lebanon, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 2022 Vol. 17 Issue 2 Pages 209-224, DOI: 10.1177/15423166221106055