Exiting Conflict, Owning the Peace
Publisher: Friedrich Ebert Stifung , Prishtina
Volume: 26 pages, pdf
Description
Local ownership is regarded as a desirable outcome of international peace operations, which enables local people to control reform and reconstruction processes, and internationals to eventually scale down or end their presence in a country. Yet, beyond this broad characterisation, local ownership is an unclear and contested idea, which provokes mis-understandings among local and international constituencies, and makes it harder to achieve outcomes which are satisfactory to all of these groups.