Climate Peace - The New Liberal Peace

Sammanfattning: In this paper, climate peace-related intervention by the United Nations Country Team in South Sudan is investigated. The case is approached through a decolonised intervention perspective based on Meera Sabaratnam’s theory in “Decolonized Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique”. The reflexive interpretation method described by Alvesson and Sköldberg is used to approach the question, focusing on the openness toward alternative interpretations and an awareness of how one constructs “facts”. The paper concludes that from a decolonised intervention perspective, the United Nations Country Team is not giving enough space for the South Sudanese government and people to create their own climate peace, and the intervention is not decolonised. There are, however, several reasonable indications in the material, and there is room within the same framework for alternative interpretations that might produce other conclusions. Lastly, the paper encourages several other perspectives through other frameworks that might shine more or different light on this case, such as a feminist lens or a theory that encompasses the global economic structures of climate peace.