Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare

Nicole Wegner

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.

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How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Dedication and Acknowledgements
pp vi-viii

Introduction: Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare
pp 1-9

1 - Putting the ‘Peace’ in Peacekeeping: Martial Peace, Martial Politics and the Objects of Our Peacekeeping Desires
pp 10-20

2 - Myths, Peacekeeping and the Peacekeeping Myth
pp 21-41

3 - Cultural Nostalgia and the Political Construction of the Canadian Peacekeeping Myth
pp 42-74

4 - The Peacekeeping Myth and the War in Afghanistan
pp 75-103

5 - Creating Martial Peace: Martial Politics and Militarised ‘Peace’ Enforcement in Canada
pp 104-132

Conclusion: Myths, Militarism and Martial(ed) Peace
pp 133-141

References
pp 142-176

Index
pp 177-180

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