Peacebuilding and the New Regionalism in southern Africa

This paper investigates the complexities of establishing sustainable peacebuilding strategies in southern Africa within 'new' security/'new' regionalism contexts. Building peace requires initiatives based upon longer-term developmental, political, economic and social objectives....

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Published in:Third world quarterly 1999-10, Vol.20 (5), p.943-956
Main Author: Maclean, Sandra J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa, Southern
Civil Society
Criteria
Developing countries
Economic regions
Environmental policy
Green buildings
Human security
LDCs
National Security
Nongovernmental organizations
Peace
Peace building
Peace making
Peace negotiations
Peaceful Coexistence
Peacekeeping
Peacetime
REALISM
Regional security
Regionalism
REGIONALISM, REGIONAL COOPERATION
SECURITY
South Africa
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Statism
STRATEGY
Sub Saharan Africa
Subnational government
Sustainability
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Summary:This paper investigates the complexities of establishing sustainable peacebuilding strategies in southern Africa within 'new' security/'new' regionalism contexts. Building peace requires initiatives based upon longer-term developmental, political, economic and social objectives. If peacebuilding is to fulfil its potential for the advancement of 'human' security in Southern Africa, these criteria will best be met through regional solutions. Yet, the new regionalism is multi-dimensional and the various regionalist forces are not necessarily compatible. Although national governments have made some efforts toward the development of a regional security complex, strong statist and realist tendencies persist at official levels and regionalist pressures within civil societies as well as by external actors tend to be mixed and often contradictory. Apart from a widespread recognition in South Africa of the need to give a bottom-up perspective on the question 'who is security all about?', there has been a growing recognition throughout the region as a whole of the desirability of a regional dimension to the security referent.
ISSN:0143-6597
1360-2241
DOI:10.1080/01436599913424