Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding

by Pugh, Michael; Cooper, Neil; Turner, Mandy

• ISBN13: 9780230573352
• ISBN10: 0230573355
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Examines the much-neglected question of what constitutes a political economy of peace after civil conflicts and who controls it.

Author Biography

MICHAEL PUGH is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bradford, UK, editor of the journal International Peacekeeping and the Cass Peacekeeping book series. He was a member of the ESRC-funded Transformation of War Economies team, edited Regeneration of War-torn Societies (2000), and co-authored War Economies in a Regional Context (2004).

NEIL COOPER is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Security in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. His research interests include the arms trade, arms control and the political economy of civil conflicts. His recent publications include an edited special issue on war economies of Conflict, Security and Development, co-authorship of War Economies in a Regional Context: The Challenges of Transformation (2004) and articles in Security Dialogue; Contemporary Security Policy; Review of International Studies and Development and Change.

MANDY TURNER is Lecturer in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. She is assistant editor of International Peacekeeping and has published articles on peacebuilding, regulating the trade in conflict goods, diasporas and peacebuilding, and statebuilding in Palestine in Conflict, Security and Development, Democratization, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, The World Today and The Guardian.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. ix
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xiv
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The Political Economy of Liberal War and Peace
The Political Economy of Peace Processes	p. 11
The Gendered Impact of Peace	p. 30
Neoliberalism Versus Peacebuilding in Iraq	p. 47
Trade
Trading with Security: Trade Liberalisation and Conflict	p. 67
Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 85
As Good as it Gets: Securing Diamonds in Sierra Leone	p. 103
Employment
From Waging War to Peace Work: Labour and Labour Markets	p. 121
Employment, Labour Rights and Social Resistance	p. 139
Securitising the Economy of Reintegration in Liberia	p. 157
Diasporas
Three Discourses on Diasporas and Peacebuilding	p. 173
Diaspora Engagement in Peacebuilding: Empirical and Theoretical Challenges	p. 191
Rwandese Diasporas and the Reconstruction of a Fragile Peace	p. 206
Borderlands and the Cartography of Violent Economies
War, Peace and the Places in Between: Why Borderlands are Central	p. 225
Microfinance and Borderlands: Impacts of 'Local Neoliberalism'	p. 245
Potential Difference: Internal Borderlands in Africa	p. 266
Civil Society
Welfare and the Civil Peace: Poverty with Rights?	p. 287
Peace Constituencies in Peacebuilding: The Mesas de Concertacion in Guatemala	p. 302
El Salvador: The Limits of a Violent Peace	p. 318
Global Governance
Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Governance Without Government	p. 337
The UN Peacebuilding Commission: The Rise and Fall of a Good Idea	p. 356
Material Reproduction and Stateness in Bosnia and Herzegovina	p. 373
Conclusion: The Political Economy of Peacebuilding - Whose Peace? Where Next?	p. 390
Index	p. 398
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