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The post-conflict environment : investigation and critique / Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postwar reconstruction--Case studies.
- Postwar reconstruction.
- Peace-building--Case studies.
- Peace-building.
- Reconciliation.
- Reconciliation--Case studies.
- Conflict management--Case studies.
- Conflict management.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions-such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopment-and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international techonocratic paradigm of peacebuilding. Key international stakeholders-from activists to politicians, humanitarian agencies to financial institutions-characterize disparate sites as "weak," "fragile," or "failed" state and, as a result, prescribe peacebuilding techniques that paradoxically disable effective man-agement of post-conflict spaces while perpetuating neoliberal political and economic conditions. Treating all efforts to represent post-conflict environments as problematic, the goal becomes understanding the underlying connection between post-conflict conditions and the actions and interventions of peacebuilding technocracies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The post-conflict environment : a genealogy / Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy
- Statebuilding in a vacuum : Sierra Leone and the missing international political economy of civil wars / Catherine Goetze
- The performance and politics of trauma in northern Iraq / Sarah Keeler
- Algeria and the violence of national reconciliation / Jacob Mundy
- The work of exile : protracted refugee situations and the new Palestinian normal / Romola Sanyal
- Constructing reconstruction : building Kosovo's post-conflict environment / Andrew Herscher
- International finance and the reconstruction of Beirut : war by other means? / Najib Hourani
- Aftermath : a speculative conclusion / Daniel Bertrand Monk and David Campbell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472120390
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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