{"id":1043,"date":"2019-05-06T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T08:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/isk\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2021-08-12T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:08:43","slug":"non-recognition-of-armed-non-state-actors-risks-and-opportunities-for-conflict-transformation-projekt-geis-clement-pfeifer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/isk\/en\/non-recognition-of-armed-non-state-actors-risks-and-opportunities-for-conflict-transformation-projekt-geis-clement-pfeifer-2","title":{"rendered":"DSF Project \u201c(Non-)Recognition of Armed Non-State Actors: Risks and Opportunities for Conflict Transformation\u201d (Geis\/Cl\u00e9ment\/Pfeifer)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project start in March 2017. Organisation of an international conference, funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). The conference took place at the HSU<\/abbr> in June 2018. An edited volume on the results of the conference is currently in preparation. A conference report can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Organisers: Anna Geis, Ma\u00e9va Cl\u00e9ment, and Hanna Pfeifer<\/p>\n

Social science research on \u201crecognition\u201d and \u201cmis\/non-recognition\u201d has not yet entered the field of study addressing conflict transformation, especially with regards to conflicts with armed non-state actors (ANSAs). This international conference was dedicated to addressing this gap and thereby advancing by both recognition research and Peace and Conflict Studies. The driving research questions throughout the conference were: Which forms of (non-)recognition of ANSAs do occur in violent conflicts and how can we analyze them? Which risks and opportunities arise in processes of conflict transformation, when state actors recognise or, conversely, deny ANSAs recognition?<\/p>\n

The conference was structured around individual case studies of particular relevance to the topic. The line-up of researchers covered prominent conflicts in which ANSAs participate, from various world regions and different socio-political contexts. Additionally, V\u00e9ronique Dudouet (Berghof Foundation) reflected in her keynote speech on the relevance of recognition as a concept and potential tool for practitioners involved in conflict transformation.<\/p>\n

In terms of results, three central hypotheses emerged from the conference: (i) Recognition is causal for conflict transformation, (ii) Non-recognition is an impediment to conflict transformation, and (iii) misrecognition might even be a cause of conflict escalation. In particular, the labelling of an actor as a terrorist group \u2013 as a drastic form of misrecognition \u2013 and consequent delegitimisation of both its claims and its actorness, minimises the prospects for conflict transformation. In this regard, the \u201cglobal war on terror\u201d stood out as among the most important normative frameworks within which (failing) recognition practices operate contemporarily.<\/p>\n

Participants of the conference<\/strong><\/p>\n