TY - CHAP
T1 - Desecuritization in Protracted Conflicts
AU - Adamides, Constantinos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter focuses exclusively on desecuritization in environments dominated by routinized securitization. It examines both the top-down attempts of mainstream actors, and more importantly the under-examined audience-driven efforts and limitations. Specifically, it focuses on one hand why and how certain groups are willing and capable of breaking free of the conflict norms to engage in desecuritizing acts, and on the other the limitations they face and the main reasons why their efforts have not managed, so far, to have a major impact on the conflict. Particular emphasis is placed on the most recent and important audience-driven effort carried out by a civil society group, called Unite Cyprus Now.
AB - This chapter focuses exclusively on desecuritization in environments dominated by routinized securitization. It examines both the top-down attempts of mainstream actors, and more importantly the under-examined audience-driven efforts and limitations. Specifically, it focuses on one hand why and how certain groups are willing and capable of breaking free of the conflict norms to engage in desecuritizing acts, and on the other the limitations they face and the main reasons why their efforts have not managed, so far, to have a major impact on the conflict. Particular emphasis is placed on the most recent and important audience-driven effort carried out by a civil society group, called Unite Cyprus Now.
KW - Audience-driven desecuritization
KW - Bottom-up desecuritization
KW - Desecuritization
KW - UniteCyprusNow
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145403687&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-33200-6_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-33200-6_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85145403687
T3 - Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
SP - 143
EP - 164
BT - Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -