Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Idler Annette, Mouly Cécile, Miranda Lenin
    Power Unpacked: Domination, Empowerment and Participation in Local Guatemalan Peace Forums
    in Peace, Conflict and Development , Issue 21, March ,  2015 ,  2-40
    This article focuses on the various manifestations of power at play in a local peace initiative, the Guatemalan peace initiative, the Guatemalan peace initiative, the Guatemalan mesas de concertación – forums for forums for consultation and follow -up of the peace agreements in English, or mesas in short. With this we hope to fill a void in the field of peace and conflict studies: the lack of a framework to systematically analyse different dimensions of power in local peace initiatives. Drawing on qualitative data dimensions of power in local peace initiatives. Drawing on qualitative data dimensions of power in local peace initiatives. Drawing on qualitative data dimensions of power in local peace initiatives. Drawing on qualitative data collected between 2002 and and 2012, we use John Gaventa’s ‘power cube’ approach to explore spaces, forms and levels of power how these approach to explore spaces, forms and levels of power and how these interact. This includes how power shaped the establishment and evolution of the mesas, and how the the mesas simultaneously sought to challenge unequal power structures, as well to enable underrepresented social sectors to voice their concerns over peace implementation. We argue that the mesas were not only used by different stakeholders to contest and project power. They also reproduced structures of inequality and were prey inequality and were prey inequality and were prey to invisible power, which made it difficult for them effectively enable marginalised social groups to achieve empowerment. Still, raising marginalised social groups to achieve empowerment. Still, raising awareness about the significance that support across different levels of awareness about the significance that support across different levels of awareness about the significance that support across different levels of awareness about the significance that support across different levels of awareness about the significance that support across different levels of society has for society has for society has for society has for society has for society has for successful implementation of Guatemalan peace agreements, the mesas promoted the participation and empowerment of a variety of social sectors, contributing to a more inclusive and locally grounded peace, and therefore a more sustainable one. Full text available on line at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/ssis/peace-conflict-and-development/latest-issue/Power-unpacked.pdf
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