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Post-ISIL reconciliation in Iraq and the local anatomy of national grievances: the case of Yathrib
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Abstract The incentive for international agencies to promote 'local' peacebuilding is commonly premised on the hope that micro-level interventions can nourish grassroots activism and participatory citizenship. Tracing reconciliation processes across Iraq following the defeat of ISIL provides a window through... view more
The incentive for international agencies to promote 'local' peacebuilding is commonly premised on the hope that micro-level interventions can nourish grassroots activism and participatory citizenship. Tracing reconciliation processes across Iraq following the defeat of ISIL provides a window through which to view the transactional relationships between 'national' and 'local' forms of politics, conflict and peace in post-Ba'athist Iraq. This paper focuses on the example of Yathrib, Salah al-Din province, where over ninety per cent of residents were displaced in 2014, and an estimated eighty-five per cent subsequently returned following peace negotiations. The paper uses qualitative interview findings to demonstrate on the one hand that seemingly 'local' tribal solutions are built into national-level 'peace strategies', while on the other, state capture and power politics is infused into the management of apparently parochial disputes. While these observations are not an indictment of international efforts to intervene at the subnational level, they serve to thoroughly 'de-romanticise' the local.... view less
Keywords
Iraq; Middle East; reconciliation; peace process; peace policy; consolidation; transaction; politics; displacement; peace negotiation; power politics; intervention; conflict management
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 335-350
Journal
Peacebuilding, 10 (2022) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1940434
ISSN
2164-7267
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed