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Everyday Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Spaces: The Creation of Social Legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Cultural Arenas (2014)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S. (2014). Everyday Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Spaces: The Creation of Social Legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Cultural Arenas. In D. Roberts (Ed.), Liberal peacebuilding and the locus of legitimacy (11-38). Routledge

The international community has long been criticized for its lack of social legitimacy in BiH and thus for its failure to create a sustainable social contract in which people can identify with the version of peace that is being implemented in the cou... Read More about Everyday Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Spaces: The Creation of Social Legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Cultural Arenas.

Local Agency and Peacebuilding. EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa (2014)
Book
Kappler, S. (2014). Local Agency and Peacebuilding. EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137307194

While agency has become the new buzzword for researchers in the area of peace and conflict studies, it remains a concept that is both under-theorised and contested in terms of how it transforms the disciplines of Politics, International Relations and... Read More about Local Agency and Peacebuilding. EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa.

Peacebuilding and lines of friction between imagined communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2013). Peacebuilding and lines of friction between imagined communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa. Peacebuilding, 1(3), 349-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2013.813177

With specific reference to Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa, this article looks at how peacebuilding actors constantly recreate public space and the discourses within it. The formation of imagined political communities reflects the extent to which... Read More about Peacebuilding and lines of friction between imagined communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa.

Coping with research: local tactics of resistance against (mis-)representation in academia (2013)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2013). Coping with research: local tactics of resistance against (mis-)representation in academia. Peacebuilding, 1(1), 125-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2013.756279

Research on fieldwork methods in Peace and Conflict Studies has often tended to examine the tools through which researchers can more easily access information about and from their ‘local subjects’. This article, however, takes into account the ways i... Read More about Coping with research: local tactics of resistance against (mis-)representation in academia.

Divergent Transformation and Centrifugal Peacebuilding: The EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (2012)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2012). Divergent Transformation and Centrifugal Peacebuilding: The EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina. International Peacekeeping, 19(5), 612-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2012.722001

This article problematizes the EU's approach to conflict transformation in its neighbouring countries, with specific reference to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It claims that the way in which the EU engages with domestic elites differs considerably from it... Read More about Divergent Transformation and Centrifugal Peacebuilding: The EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina..

Everyday Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Spaces: The Creation of Social Legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina's Cultural Arenas (2012)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2013). Everyday Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Spaces: The Creation of Social Legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina's Cultural Arenas. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 7(1), 11-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2012.655614

The international community has long been criticized for its lack of social legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina and its creation of a dysfunctional public space in the light of people's everyday experiences of peace. This article contends that, as a res... Read More about Everyday Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Spaces: The Creation of Social Legitimacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina's Cultural Arenas.