Towards A Peace with Global Justice? The Struggle within the International Peace Architecture

The growing connection between peace and justice depends upon a long history of expanded rights claims emanating from critical agency and global subalterns. Their political scripts have partly driven the development of the international peace architecture (IPA), a series of layers, sediments, and theories built up through international and local scale peace praxis over the last century. It has often required an alliance with powerful actors and an international consensus. Its evolution challenges the Western framed approach to peacemaking from various directions- regional, methodological, theoretical, and ethical. The logical scientific conclusion of this process appears to equate peace with post-colonial versions of global justice and sustainability, drawing on subaltern perspectives and epistemological advances. However, blockages, counter-peace dynamics, including spoiling and authoritarian outcomes in many peace processes across the world, tend to underline the limited pragmatic traction of the peace-justice nexus