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- Juana García Duque
- Juan Pablo Casadiego
Abstract
The international community is a key actor in fostering, establishing and maintaining peace in conflict-affected regions through multiple forms of cooperation. Official development assistance (ODA), for example, is one of them. It encompasses peacebuilding initiatives and includes diverse actors and partnerships. This paper provides a better understanding of such stakeholders’ relationships by analysing 85 successful peacebuilding ODA projects that donors have implemented in Colombia. Together with international donors, we examined the projects’ databases to classify the modality of cooperation, based on whether it focussed on development assistance, humanitarian aid or transition and on the way in which the key actors’ involvement varied, depending on the projects and modalities. We bridge multidisciplinary findings from peacebuilding and international cooperation literature in light of the Colombian case. Using empirical and theoretical evidence, we found that non-governmental organisations and civil society are key actors in most of the projects; and that, with Colombia holding a middle-income country (MIC) status, donors do not avoid cooperating with the government, as they do with low-income countries (LIC), which lack governmental capacities. The private sector was not recognised as a key actor by the donors, who question its role in international peacebuilding-oriented assistance.
Suggested Citation
Juana García Duque & Juan Pablo Casadiego, 2021.
"International cooperation in peacebuilding: stakeholder interaction in Colombia,"
Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(10), pages 2372-2392, July.
Handle:
RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:42:y:2021:i:10:p:2372-2392
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1951200
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