Peri-conflict peace: brokerage, development and illiberal ceasefires in Myanmar's borderlands

dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Gerard
dc.contributor.authorFarrelly, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-27T23:58:35Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2022-05-15T08:16:31Z
dc.description.abstractSuccessive Myanmar governments have enlisted illiberal means in attempts to end the world’s oldest civil wars. Since the 1990s, stateled attempts at peace-building have offered ethnic armed groups limited political autonomy or institutional recognition. Many of the 1990s ceasefire agreements, and the new wave agreed since the transition to partial civilian rule in 2011, have instead sought to erode insurgent legitimacy and control over local populations through encroachment of state-led development initiatives and elite resource extraction rackets into restive regions. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted during periods of ceasefire in Kachin (1994–2011) and Karen States (2012–2019), this article explores how illiberal peace-building has inflamed tensions between ‘insurgent social order’ and the central state over who and how development is brokered and delivered. While illiberal peace sustains economic and political activity, attempts by the central state to cut insurgent social order out from the mediation and regulation of public goods can provoke intense grassroots conflict within insurgent groups and with the state. Violence looms as a proximate possibility in these contexts despite elite ceasefire, creating what we term ‘peri-conflict’ peace.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1478-1174en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/264135
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Ltd
dc.rights© 2020 King’s College London
dc.sourceConflict, Security and Development
dc.subjectBrokers
dc.subjectdevelopment
dc.subjecthybrid political orders
dc.subjectilliberal peace-building
dc.subjectMyanmar
dc.titlePeri-conflict peace: brokerage, development and illiberal ceasefires in Myanmar's borderlands
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage163en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage141en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMcCarthy, Gerard, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFarrelly, Nicholas, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu3208194@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMcCarthy, Gerard, u5521517en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidFarrelly, Nicholas, u3208194en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor149900 - OTHER ECONOMICSen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160500 - POLICY AND ADMINISTRATIONen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160600 - POLITICAL SCIENCEen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB14894en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume20en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/14678802.2019.1705072en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85079731545
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000518660600007
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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