Vertical Relationships and Local Peacebuilding in Lebanon: The Case of Responsive Waste Management
Publisher: Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Author(s): Hanna Leonardsson
Date: 2020
Topics: Basic Services, Cooperation, Governance, Livelihoods, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Lebanon
The theme of this special issue, local responses to conflict in Muslim contexts, is not new. Yet the meaning of the local and localisation evolves dynamically in a fast-changing world in which trends in conflict and crisis are always shifting, and therefore the topic requires revisiting. Originality in peacebuilding, development and relief emerges from scholars and practitioners engaging in contextualisation and experimentation on the theme.
This special issue has its roots in a conference organised by the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), in Doha, Qatar on 16–18 December 2017. The conference was groundbreaking as the first major academic event in the Arab region to address the issue of localisation of conflict response in the region. Many excellent papers were presented at the conference by academics and practitioners from the region, stimulating wide-ranging discussion, and some selected conference papers were developed into articles for this special issue. CHS aims to bridge the local and the international in studying and researching conflict in the Arab region, with scholars and practitioners addressing the subject in both English and Arabic. Whilst CHS focuses on Arab and Muslim societies and has extensive networks with local academic and practitioner organisations in the region, it also partners with leading international centres including the Peace Research Institute Oslo and the London-based Overseas Research Institute (Burki, 2017).