Abstract

“Liberal peace” is a standardized practice of peacebuilding interventions in conflict countries, in which the development of social institutions in these countries is carried out according to the Western model. A number of scholarly works on the critique of liberal allow us to consider it as a kind of neoliberal ideology, when peacebuilding efforts to overcome the dynamics and consequences of armed conflict turn into the imposition of liberal norms, such as (rule of law, market economy, democracy), and even seen as a form of interference in the sovereignty of these countries. The crisis of the concept of liberal will be considered in the context of state-building and sovereignty of post-conflict countries. The concept of liberal often interprets peacekeeping intervention in negotiations as international, externally aimed at liberal norms, but internally at illiberal compromises with the ruling classes that use violence, armed non-governmental groups, and even victims of conflict. The calculation of the concept of liberal peace was based on the fact that rapid reforms in post-conflict countries towards an independent judiciary, various forms of economy and inclusive forms of involvement in the political process can create more stable configurations of and further peaceful coexistence. The technology of peacebuilding under the liberal scheme has been complicated by time constraints, in particular in the short-term budgeting and focus of international organizations on the rapid outcome of peacekeeping activities. The focus of the liberal measures was on the post-conflict reconstruction of states and the restoration of their sovereignty. The nature of the UN peacekeeping operations themselves, which have become more complex and multilateral, has also changed. In turn, the transformation of peacekeeping missions required a change in the conceptual basis of international interventions in conflict resolution and resolution. Researchers began to formulate concepts where peacebuilding takes into account not so much a liberal-oriented project of state building in post-conflict areas, as taking into account the socio-cultural context, local and traditional norms in peacemaking.

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