Building Trust Through Care: A Feminist Take on Inclusion in Multi-Track Mediation
Categories: Statebuilding, The Field of Women, Peace and Security
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Peace Accords
Country: Georgia and Azerbaijan
Region: Europe and Eurasia
Year: 2024
Citation: Fal-Dutra Santos, Agnieszka. 2024. "Building Trust Through Care: A Feminist Take on Inclusion in Multi-Track Mediation." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, March 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2326623
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Peace Accords
Country: Georgia and Azerbaijan
Region: Europe and Eurasia
Year: 2024
Citation: Fal-Dutra Santos, Agnieszka. 2024. "Building Trust Through Care: A Feminist Take on Inclusion in Multi-Track Mediation." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, March 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2326623
Abstract
Inclusion is seen as a ‘golden standard’ in conflict mediation, and multitrack peace processes as a tool to operationalize it. However, when non-official (Track Two and Three) actors do not have faith in the official (Track One) peace process, a critical tension emerges, undermining the underlying logic of multitrackness. This article examines this tension, applying a feminist lens to the peace processes in Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh. It calls for a re-thinking of the hierarchical logic of a multitrack peace process, predominant in much of the literature and practice, and to (re-)centre practices of care, relationship and movement-building, and social reproduction.