Motivations for Local Resistance in International Peacebuilding


Publisher: Third World Quarterly

Author(s): Sung Yong Lee

Date: 2015

Topics: Land, Programming

Countries: Cambodia

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This article discusses the complex motivations underlying local resistance to externally led post-war peacebuilding programmes. In examining the land distribution process in post-war Cambodia it proposes a five-part typology of motivations for the resistance that frequently appears in the context of international post-conflict peacebuilding processes. The article also argues that a single campaign of resistance is likely to involve multiple actors with multiple motivations.