Peacebuilding as a Corporeal, Temporal and Mneumonic Site

Abstract

Peacebuilding is marked by heterogenious histories and tense locations of political differences. How the past conflict is remembered is fundamental to peacebuilding as the practices of remembering war and violence bring forth the corporeal politics of peacebuilding. The past conflict is not just remembered, but it is enacted in bodies, i.e. corporeally remembered. During peacebuilding the stakes are high since it always involves a struggle who has the right to present post-conflict community, who has right to be visible and, in more general, who belongs to the community. This chapter discusses two remembering, yet resistant bodies through Jacques Rancière’s notion of the political. The political is understood her to be a struggle of logics that count the parties and parts of the post-conflict community.