This article considers what treating individual international interveners engaged in peacebuilding work as referent objects can tell us about emplaced security. This is important because individual interveners are diverse, embodied agents who can impact the agency, peace and security of conflict-affected populations. It argues that applying an ontological security lens can provide a partial explanation for why interveners develop narratives and perform practices, including why they sometimes identify and behave in counterproductive, and even damaging, ways. The final section considers why an analytical focus on place is valuable, noting that place-based experiences and place-identities are formative of ontological security. It argues that treating interveners as a referent object provides opportunities to rethink the tendency to focus on home as the key site of emplacement in the ontological security literature. Building on this, it argues that examining the emplaced security of interveners invites us to examine the political nature and consequences of interveners’ physical and ontological security-seeking narratives and practices, including their creation of the material and ideational structures of intervention spaces and places.

本文考虑了将从事建设和平工作的各个国际干预者作为参照对象可以如何告诉我们有关安置安全的内容。这一点很重要，因为个人干预者是各种各样的，具体体现的人，可以影响受冲突影响的人民的代理，和平与安全。它认为，应用本体论安全性视角可以部分解释为何干预者会发展叙事并进行实践，包括为何有时干预者会以适得其反甚至破坏性的方式进行识别和表现。最后一部分考虑了为什么对场所的分析重点是有价值的，并指出基于场所的体验和场所身份是本体安全性的形成。它认为，将干预者作为参考对象提供了机会，以重新考虑将注意力集中在作为本体论安全性文献中安置的主要地点的家庭上的趋势。在此基础上，它认为检查干预者的安置安全可以促使我们研究干预者寻求安全的身体和本体论叙事和实践的政治性质和后果，包括干预空间和场所的物质和概念结构的创建。