Martialling Peace

How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare

Nicole Wegner

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Edinburgh University Press
19 September 2023

Peace studies & conflict resolution; International relations; Peacekeeping operations

Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies

This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies, and the ways that people connect emotionally to myths about peacekeeping. The celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematized acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework-martial peace-the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. It critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges the academic, government, and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace.

By: Nicole Wegner
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474492836
ISBN 10: 1474492835
Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 19 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicole Wegner is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland

Reviews for Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare

""Through a nuanced and wide-ranging discourse analysis, Nicole Wegner derives the concept of martial peace"", produced and reproduced in/through the mythology of peacekeeping. In turn, martial peace performs a key role in legitimising militarisation and war. With resonance far beyond the case of Canada, which is the focus of Wegner's meticulous analysis here, critical engagement with how peace is martialled to justify violence is a necessary precursor to the imagining of anti-militarist and anti-oppressive futures."""" -Laura Shepherd, University of Sydney