@article{15d9db62080d432587d8a152411d1c25,
title = "The great disconnect: Global governance and localised conflict in the cases of India and the EU",
abstract = "Academic scholarship displays a curious disconnect between two trends, connecting peace and governance issues. At the same time when conflicts tended to shift inwards (from inter-state to civil wars), global governance approaches seemed to decentre the management of peace and conflict outwards (from the nation state to international forums). This paper investigates this disjuncture by examining the European Union and India{\textquoteright}s governance strategies in different conflict contexts. It studies whether their strategies operate close to the global governance model and/or whether they are able to connect with and effectively support local peace initiatives in conflict-ridden areas.",
author = "Sandra Pogodda and Richmond, {Oliver P.} and {Mac Ginty}, Roger",
note = "Funding Information: We argue that both governance strategies have achieved pacification rather than conflict resolution or transformation, suggesting that liberal governance is indeed a management not a positive peace promotion strategy. Given that global governance policies thus seem to be fairly detached from the needs and politics of local conflict parties, we will secondly juxtapose those policies with grass-roots peace projects. Here, we will analyse how far those peace projects are supported by the EU and India. We will argue that state or EU support for local peace initiatives is often necessary to promote conflict resolution13 and point to the growing disconnect between progressive local peace initiatives and rather ineffective global governance approaches. Funding Information: Sandra Pogodda is a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on state formation processes in revolutionary societies, resistance movements, (post-)revolutionary challenges to peace and conflict studies, and critical development studies. She is Co-Investigator of a research project on “The International Peacebuilding Architecture and State Formation in (Post-)Revolutionary Societies”, sponsored by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. Funding Information: This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme [grant agreement 266931]. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 University of Kent.",
year = "2015",
month = oct,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/13600826.2015.1071242",
language = "English",
volume = "29",
pages = "551--573",
journal = "Global Society",
issn = "1360-0826",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "4",
}