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C onflict resolution and practices of peace: Moving beyond sovereign disciplining?

C onflict resolution and practices of peace: Moving beyond sovereign disciplining?. Marijana Sevo. Primary research and background. General interest in the fields of International Relations, Political Theory and Critical Security Studies

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C onflict resolution and practices of peace: Moving beyond sovereign disciplining?

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  1. Conflict resolution and practices of peace: Moving beyond sovereign disciplining? MarijanaSevo

  2. Primary research and background • General interest in the fields of International Relations, Political Theory and Critical Security Studies • Examination of traditional claims about the theory and conduct of humanitarian intervention and forms of liberal peace 1. Disciplining character of sovereignty 2. Local forms of resistance

  3. Contesting sovereignties • There are many sovereignties • State sovereignty (nationalism, non-intervention, citizenship) vs sovereignty of the system of states (collective security, international, humanity) • Bordering practices and intervention • Competing conceptions of the longstanding tension between citizens and humanity in the works of Andrew Linklater and RBJ Walker

  4. Locality, resistance • Recovering the local and the particular from the hegemonic narratives (Hartog) • The limits of normative knowledge • Over-determined by the excess of narratives • Specific cases and events which exceed narratives of sovereign disciplining (Foucault)

  5. The Dayton Peace Accords: Between Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimisation of violence • Dayton Peace Accords (1995) and military intervention in Kosovo (1999): Challenging basic principle of the discipline of IR • Series of critical interventions in the areas of international law, critical theory and post-structural politics • Enquiries into the relationship between current theoretical debates and empirical cases and resources available • Issues of identity, borders, representation

  6. Basic contradictions: sovereignty/ humanity, men/citizens, inside/outside, self-other. • Thesis: - explores historical and structural negotiations of these contradictions while making a claim about the re-assertion of the principle of sovereignty in a specific geographic territory -works to put the primary claims and arguments about the state(s) of political life in the modern world under scrutiny of the specific event • specific events and spaces exceed disciplinary practices of sovereignty and challenge the ways in which contemporary political imagination nominates and classifies the pressing political problems of our time.

  7. Other research themes • Regionalisation, Security and Other Europes (EnginIsin) • Alterity and difference: The Roma and the ethics of encounter (Shapiro, Spivak) • The Subject of Resistance and the Problem of Excess: Dayton Peace Accords and Legitimisation of Violence (Anne Orford)

  8. Future research plans • Politico-sociological enquiry into the status of local conditioning in specific contexts • Ontopology as a techinque of interrogating the capacity of claims about peacebuilding

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