Peace infrastructures how UN peace operations build roads, bridges, and solar farms in the pursuit of sustainability Silvia Danielak

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danielak, Silvia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development projects.

Sustainable development.

Economic assistance.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Developing countries.

United Nations. Department of Peace-keeping Operations.

Genre:

Case studies

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

How UN peace operations build roads, bridges, and solar farms in the pursuit of sustainability

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press [2026]

Summary:

"Book cover for Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of SustainabilityPeace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of SustainabilityOpen AccessBy Silvia DanielakThe MIT PressDOI: https://doi-org.proxy.library.upenn.edu/10.7551/mitpress/15649.001.0001ISBN electronic: 9780262385138Publication date: 2026The first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations.Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might be unusual infrastructure builders, but they’re certainly not unambitious. Since the beginning of the UN’s peacekeeping activities after the end of World War II, the Blue Helmets have cemented streets, constructed bridges, and dug wells in conflict zones. But how did the military arm of the world’s primary diplomatic forum become involved in such activities in its quest for peace, and with what consequences? Peace Infrastructures analyzes the turn to ever-more-complex infrastructure projects, from early road building via urban community projects to the commissioning of entire renewable power plants, in the context of an evolving understanding of peace “problems” and solutions. Tracing the global travel of policies, technologies, and expertise, Silvia Danielak investigates how the shift toward risk management, legacy, and climate security was driven by, and materialized in, conflict zones, shaping the very idea of peace.The book critically engages with the UN’s ambition to insert itself in the sustainable development of the countries it seeks to assist, arguing that we need to consider peace operations’ spatial, urban, and material ways of engagement—especially in the face of mounting climate risks. Infrastructure is poised to take a more prominent position within peace operations, but a more nuanced understanding that recognizes its opportunities, as well as its potential for violence, is required"-- MIT Press Direct

Contents:

Infrastructure’s modern normalcy

Building stately infrastructure

Infrastructural risk

Infrastructural afterlife

Securing infrastructure in the climate crisis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (MIT Press Direct, viewed June 4, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Danielak, Silvia Peace infrastructures

ISBN:

9780262385138

0262385139

OCLC:

1593853606

Access Restriction:

Some versions Open access versions available from some providers open access