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New winners and losers in North Waziristan: Understanding tensions between top-down projects and local knowledge in the post-conflict setting (2015–2019)
| dc.contributor.author | Dawar, Asif Iqbal | |
| dc.contributor.author | Farias Ferreira, Marcos | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-29T10:26:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-29T10:26:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-04-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | There is a growing academic literature on the role of cultural sensitivity in post-conflict peace-building. However, the role of local knowledge in a post-conflict reconstruction setting is rarely discussed explicitly. Attempting to fill the gap, this research paper aims at understanding why local knowledge is imperative to achieve just and equitable post-conflict reconstruction policies and practices. Using qualitative field data, the paper is based on the experiences and lessons learned from the post-conflict reconstruction efforts (2015–2019) in the tribal district of North Waziristan (NW), Pakistan. The paper finds out that while establishing human security as a benchmark, top-down reconstruction policies and projects ignore local knowledge and, in fact, exacerbate pre-existing fragilities by creating new winners and losers. The refashioning of the social order, along with notions of justice and equity, in the post-conflict setting results in local disputes among families and tribes. The paper argues that cultural-sensitive reconstruction planning is even more pertinent and pragmatic in “close-knit community” settings, where people remain dependent on continuous social and economic relationships with each other. Rather, a less sensitive approach to cultural factors most often fosters discord, thereby reinforcing tensions and power inequalities. | pt_PT |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Asif Iqbal Dawar & Marcos Farias Ferreira | Richard Meissner (Reviewing editor) (2021) New winners and losers in North Waziristan: Understanding tensions between top-down projects and local knowledge in the post-conflict setting (2015–2019), Cogent Social Sciences, 7:1, DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2021.1909209 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/23311886.2021.1909209 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28307 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Post-conflict reconstruction; local knowledge; top-down projects; human security; community development | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | International Relations; Development Studies; Development Policy | pt_PT |
| dc.title | New winners and losers in North Waziristan: Understanding tensions between top-down projects and local knowledge in the post-conflict setting (2015–2019) | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
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| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Cogent Social Sciences | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 7 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Dawar | |
| person.familyName | Farias Ferreira | |
| person.givenName | Asif Iqbal | |
| person.givenName | Marcos | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 761C-D88B-2EAE | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5821-0022 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-8257-3336 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 57194107783 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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