Wie denken wir Gewalt jenseits eurozentrischer Kategorien? Wie kolonial geprägte Strukturen Gewalt reproduzieren und warum Menschenrechte oft an der ‚Zone des Nicht-Seins‘ scheitern.
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Systems of Conflictivity
By Andréa Gill. In places where violence functions as the norm sustaining systemic inequalities – and, hence, not as a moment of exception or as the occasional breakdown of order – it becomes necessary to reconceive the peace and conflict archives in ways which take into account structural insecurity and socio-economic precarisation. From the perspective of postcolonies, we can perceive the multiple and imbricated ways in which conflict springs from the inequality embedded in relations of power. Beyond episodic framings of conflict and conflict resolution, mediation or transformation, the concept of ‘systems of conflictivity’ enables us to grasp, then, the determinants of violence as a continuum in a manner which linear causality (of periodisation and events) fails to do so.



