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Cecelia Lynch

Political scientist

May 15, 2025

13:21
Tell us a little bit about this concept of going back to local and inclusive peacekeeping in particular.
13:30
I think more than anything, the folks whose lives are implicated in peacebuilding arrangements need to be convinced that they themselves, their ideas are good and useful, and they need to take the lead rather than designs being imposed on them.
13:47
I do want to go back to this notion of the local, the local which a number of scholars have used in this notion of localization.
13:58
Some folks call it critical localization.
14:01
Actually, I have a problem with this term, the local.
14:05
I don't bring it out enough in that particular chapter.
14:08
I do footnote that, but I I do note that other terminology, for example, restoration, homegrown solutions, such as Ohaniba Boateng has proposed, for me, they are far preferable.

6 MINS LATER

19:56
Could you explain why the participation of women is really essential for creating a more effective and dynamic framework, not just for peace, actually, although it obviously has a place there, but more generally for international governance?

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