Talk:Peacebuilding

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Planned Revisions
I'm planning on revising and expanding this article as part of my Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities course at Rice University and I would appreciate any feedback on my planned changes. I'm interested in this subject because I'm studying international relations and development issues. Well-executed peacebuilding creates a sustainable peace after conflict by addressing the root causes of the fighting and by helping repair the damage to the whole society, making it an important topic in both international relations and development.

The current article is a stub with no sections and no references. The content does not include any explanation of the circumstances that necessitate peacebuilding, history of peacebuilding efforts, analysis of their effectiveness, case studies or criticisms of peacebuilding. Although it mentions UN Peacebuilding Fund projects and the 2010 report on their impact as well as the UNSC report on the role of women in peacebuilding, it does not provide any detail on these topics. In addition, all of the information in the article comes from peacebuilding organizations- none comes from scholarly articles or research papers with an outside perspective.

I plan to rectify these issues by adding sections about the problems caused by war, the history of peacebuilding, results, ongoing efforts and criticisms of peacebuilding. These sections will be detailed and reference diverse sources including outside research reports and scholarly articles. I will also expand the existing discussion of UN efforts and the role of women in peacebuilding. The results section will include case studies, although I have yet to determine which countries would be the best case studies to discuss. Does anyone have suggestions?

I would really appreciate any feedback, particularly about the national peacebuilding efforts on which I should focus. Thanks! Nadhika99 (talk) 05:28, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I just posted my initial revisions to the article in the mainspace. The History, Role of women, Ongoing efforts, Results and Criticisms sections are all works in progress. I would appreciate any feedback about the content I've posted so far and the sections on which I'm working. Thanks! Nadhika99 (talk) 21:56, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Peer-Review
The edits to this entry are very well organized. I have a couple of suggestions though:

1. In the 'components' section add something about the components of pre-conflict peace building since you note that as the main distinguishing factor between peace building and peace keeping.

2. The ongoing efforts section needs a reference. I am sure UN documents would provide a good source. Also you should mention in the section heading that this part refers specifically to the ongoing efforts of UN Peacebuilding Commission.

Overall, this is very well written article with excellent referencing. Kjhooda (talk) 03:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comments! For #1, all of the information I have thus far found about efforts that meet the definition of pre-conflict peacebuilding are not called peacebuilding, they're called other things (conflict prevention, crisis prevention, etc.). I am looking for more information about components of pre-conflict peacebuilding that go by the name peacebuilding, but if I don't find them I will use the conflict prevention information. For #2, I added the references. I would like to include other organizations' efforts as well, although I may end up requesting that someone else do it on the talk page depending on my time. Nadhika99 (talk) 03:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Review
Your article has a lot of information; I really liked the section where you differentiate between peacemaking, conflict resolution, and peacekeeping. First, does peacebuilding only exist within a nation? Maybe add that in your short intro paragraph. Second, your chart is amazing! It really helps with the content. Lastly, I can’t wait to read your sections that are still in progress. Are you including the New Deal in your history section? Also, do you have anything about the hegemonic approach]] of foreign policy? QuincyC (talk) 01:15, 11 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank for your comments!! It is specific to one nation- I added that to the first sentence of the lead. I'm not including the New Deal because it wasn't an outside intervention and didn't follow violent conflict, so it's not peacebuilding. One of the criticisms I'm including is the idea that peacebuilding is a new type of mission civilatrice, a concept related to issues of cultural hegemony and power projection. Nadhika99 (talk) 03:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Review #3
You have a solid introduction, and I agree with Quincy that I appreciate that you defended why peacebuilding is a distinct field. Also I really like the chart you made under the components of peacebuilding, as it makes it very easy to read, but you might want to add a citation for that. Your [7] citation is kind of in an awkward spot, not sure if that was just a typo or something. You have lots of information on governmental organizations and NGOs, which is very good. I guess I might also suggest that you list the ongoing efforts in bullet points, to make it easier to read, but this is not necessary by any means. I think you need to expand on the results section, however. Overall, I think you did a good job at offering a lot of good information on this topic of peacebuilding.

ChloeCBlaskiewicz (talk) 02:49, 11 April 2012 (UTC)ChloeCBlaskiewicz


 * Thanks for your comments! The chart citation is the one at the end of the previous paragraph. I'm not really sure where else I could put it, I'll ask. I moved the [7] citation. I'm planning on adding more detail to both the ongoing efforts and results sections, so I'll format the ongoing efforts section then. Nadhika99 (talk) 04:05, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

GA?
This article seems close to a WP:GA level, and I'd encourage the author(s) to consider a nomination. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:01, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Draconian admin
Hi Acroterian, Can you (or anyone) explain what is "opinion" about the following paste from this page's history that you just, for the absolute worst reasons of bias & improper censorship, rolled back ... again? I mean, is it because you for some reason personally hate for anybody to ever read about the UN?:


 * UN Security Council (UNSC) has "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security" per Article 24 of the UN Charter.[1] The UNSC can take "action by air, sea, or land forces" per Article 42.[2] Yourfav (talk) 02:00, 29 May 2018 (UTC)


 * This is what I removed - a very extensive and unsourced series of opinions and soapboxing precedes the item noted above. Please reconsider your approach to your interactions with other editors - personal attacks like those on display above won't advance your edits. You are expected to source everything, to use neutral language, and to gain consensus for your edits. It's up to you to make edits that comply with policy - other editors are under no obligation to sift your edits for acceptable bits.   Acroterion   (talk)   02:09, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Opposition to even the tiniest of edits for no good cause?
Hi Acroterian, You appear to not understand that the narrow block quote that I'm repeatedly sending you is only a small portion of the edit that you rolled back. Again, do I have your direct permission to narrowly add only the following tiny edit, immediately after "Intergovernmental organizations" "Peacebuilding architecture"?:

UN Security Council (UNSC) has "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security" per Article 24 of the UN Charter.[1] The UNSC can take "action by air, sea, or land forces" per Article 42.[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yourfav (talk • contribs) 16:10, 29 May 2018 (UTC)


 * My only objection, made repeatedly, is to the policy-violating unsourced opinion and soapboxing that preceded it. You may certainly add appropriate and sourced material, subject, as always subject to review by other editors. And please stop putting words into my mouth like the section heading.  Acroterion   (talk)   16:50, 29 May 2018 (UTC).

The tiny edit is accomplished! Let's take the next step - as big or small as you'd like.
Hi Acroterian, OK, so one small approach might be for me to merely ask you permission to reapply the other edits that are bullets under the exact same section as the tiny edit that has just been accomplished. Instead, lemme go larger bcuz maybe we can make more progress all at once. You said, "My only objection, made repeatedly, is to the policy-violating unsourced opinion and soapboxing that preceded it." Does this mean that you've resigned all of your many previous objections, except for the paragraph on Afghanistan & the paragraph on Syria? If so I'll get to work on reapplying all of the other edits ***including the paragraph on Iran***. The Iran paragraph is a special concern because I keep asking you, where's the scare quote? & you don't answer my questions. So I'm still suspicious that perhaps you intended that you just generally don't like the Iran paragraph, but you were merely mistaken as to whether there's actually a scare quote in there. OK, so I'm hoping to make substantial progress with you all at once, rather than proceeding piecemeal. But we can proceed an a piecemeal manner if you'd prefer. So again, may I now have your direct explicit permission to reapply all prior edits with the clear exception of the entire paragraph on Afghanistan & the entire paragraph on Syria? A simple "yes" would suffice well, to get us to the *real* issues more quickly. Thanks. Yourfav (talk) 18:20, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Acroterian, I've waited hours for your simple consent to very specific non-troublesome edits. How long do you want before you agree to the proposed edits?
Hi Acroterian, I think the problem is clear, that you're not open to any agreement, even over genuinely beneficial edits that contain no policy-violations whatsoever. I will now bisect what I was trying to do & propose, again, the very purest portion of it first. I'll wait more hours before proceeding. If you continue to not respond, I think that proves that you never really cared at all about any of the edits on this page, except for one thing - that you just like having fun destroying contributors' work w/o any reasonable cause. Remember: I'm attempting to address inside this section (on this talk page - I'll give block quotes, momentarily) only a small portion of the edits where it seems very, clearly, that they contain utterly nothing troublesome in the slightest. You don't perceive that your approach of instant rollback of utterly everything is incredibly draconian? How am I supposed to add the sources if you won't even give me a second to get to the text that you want to have cites added to it? (Your approach to contributions is revolting.) The primary error in your approach is your complete refusal to collaborate by offering an edited version of the paragraphs that your wrongly calling into question. I never soapboxed. That's only another pointless complaint that you again wrongly made up in your mind. You're imagining things. I don't actually care what the UN does, or any government agency. In my internal thoughts on what they do w/ regard to peacebuilding, I'm really very strictly neutral. But we'll get to the paragraph on Afghanistan or Syria - in time, wherever it turns out that the word or phrase is that you're falsely alleging & that you're trying your hardest to conceal. Alright, I'll momentarily give the next tiny block quotes of proposed edits to reapply. It's only a bisected portion of the edits that I was trying gain your approval for hours ago, for the purpose of reapplying them. If I don't hear from you, even after hours pass, I'm going to presume that you consented by default. If you feel that it would be OK for me to proceed faster than waiting hours by default, please, say so. If you feel that it would be better for me to proceed slower, with even more notice to you, also, please say so. OK, here comes the bisected trouble-free portion. I don't know what's the best practice for giving a cite on a talk page. On this page, I just put "[1]", but on the actual article page, when the proper time arises, my intention is to instead include the actual cite to the UN charter. (That's just a formatting technicality that I haven't figured out the best approach, yet.) '''Acroterian, I'm directly asking you, yes or no, may I have your specific permission to reapply the following trouble-free edits?: '''
 * UN General Assembly (GA) " may make recommendations" per Article 11, Paragraph 1.[1] GA resolutions are therefore not binding.


 * UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is effectively the enforcement agency of the UN.

& I want to add this sentence to the end of the text after the PBC bullet:

PBC was established in 2005 to advise the UNSC on State collapse because the UNSC is, instead, responsible for "international" peace and security, not civil wars. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yourfav (talk • contribs) 21:26, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Acroterian, While I await your response, perhaps we can clean up some other things.
Here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold

It says, "The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold when updating the encyclopedia." I wish they'd had, instead, said "to use bold". However, I think that pretty much makes the point. Bolding text appears to be generally allowed. I still want to hear from you what you think would be a reasonable alternative as a way of emphasizing text. Although, I admit that I think that's pretty low on the list of priorities.

OK, some other clean ups are the cites from my original post on this talk page. I mean, if I can. They've been following down this page the whole time, as we write & they're kinda in the way. I never intended that that would happen, sorry, so I'm going to change them to static text, "[1]" & "[2]". I feel that's kinda crude on my part, but its the best quick solution that I have. Also, there's a stray bullet up there, in my first post on this page, so I'll blow that away, too, to make it look more appropriate. I don't know if I can, though. I don't immediately see how to make those useful edits. Maybe they're not allowed.

Alright, at this point I reckon I'll put to rest that there was never any scare quote. You've left me thinking that there's nothing wrong with the Iran paragraph. & I'm thinking that there's nothing wrong with the North Korea paragraph either. We'll get to them but not just yet. I'm merely trying to clean things up right now & I think that that your general non-responsiveness on the subject pretty much puts to bed that that whole scare quote thing was just senseless. I picking up from you that your response is emotional - it's got nothing to do with logic. I think what happened is that it only partially occurred to you that what the governments work on with regard to peacebuilding is plenty dangerous. I think that you completely ignored the victims, that there are millions of victims, that the suffered unimaginably. I think that you tried to deprive everyone in the world of any beneficial info at all on peace in every important location. I think that your very small motive was that you felt fear. I think that's why you resorted to a patently false accusation of a scare quote. I think while you were feeling fear, you were reading that the NATO trainers have a severe difficulty with real cowardice among ANA soldiers. I think that you crazily internalized it somehow - that because you were feeling fear & because you were simultaneously reading about how the complaint against a bunch of cowards was basically resulting in battle after battle with real dead bodies by the tens of thousands that somehow you crazily felt that maybe it includes you. That's crazy Acroterian. You must look at the info strictly objectively. No emotion, OK? I'm not perceiving any neutrality issue, any soapbox issue, any policy violation at all in the words that I chose. The statements have always been true. They've always been completely objective. If you sense an opportunity to edit them in any way, please, do. Please, don't just cut off all information to everyone in the world on all important subjects that are helpful to anything to do with peace. Please, especially let all of the diplomatic staff people everywhere that could benefit tremendously from a quick briefing, get their wiki. Because they are a crucial audience, I see it as absolutely crucial that info that might effect them be as objective as possible. I fully agree to a super-high standard. Now, if you think that you see something w/ the Afghanistan or Syria paragraphs, give edits to them, please!!! Think of the suffering of the victims. I'm wide open to rephrasing. I want rephrasing. I just don't understand what you're thinking is questionable. Maybe you have a good idea. It's plenty difficult from my perspective, trying to extract your idea from you. Why conceal it? Alright, I'll eventually try to proceed more formally with it with you as the hours tick by. For now, I don't want to confuse the issue that what's properly before us is only the bisected edits that I quoted in the previous section. I'm only intending to encourage you with this section to "sift" those 2 paragraphs. You called it sift. You said you wouldn't sift. Well don't worry. I'll presented it to you super slow. Word by word, if necessary, when we get to it. Alright, I'm waiting either to hear from you or for the clock to tick to a default, OK? Oh yeah, & I've been forgetting to add the 4 tildas. That's not intentional on my part. Oh, hey, by the way, are you male or female? I wanna use the correct pronoun as the occasion arises to resort to third person. Yourfav (talk) 22:17, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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