Bouka is primarily leveraging works in post-colonial studies to critique the discourse of “‘capacity building’ and the need to bring ‘local’ perspectives to studies of war and peace” (Bouka 2018). In doing so, she argues that “some of these efforts have quickly become sites for structural violence of knowledge production by not only reifying the “local” but by also only accepting said “local” perspectives as knowledge through Western researchers and erasing intellectual input of scholars from the global south” (Bouka 2018).
As noted elsewhere (See Epistemic Cultures), enlightenment logics, colonialism, liberalism, racism, ethnocentrism, modernization dogma, development discourses, and more all come into effect in north-south relations within the knowledge production process.
