Building Sustainable Peace Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding

by Langer, Arnim; Brown, Graham K.

• ISBN13: 9780198757276
• ISBN10: 0198757271
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-08-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Arnim Langer, Director, Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), KU Leuven,Graham K. Brown, Professor of International Development and Head of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia

Arnim Langer is Director of the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), Associate Professor in International Relations and Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair in Building Sustainable Peace at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He is also a Research Associate at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) at the University of Bath. His research focuses on group behaviour and identity formation, the causes and consequences of violent conflict, the dynamics and persistence of horizontal inequalities, post-conflict economic reconstruction, DDR processes, and sustainable peace building and peace education in post-conflict countries. He has conducted extensive field research and is running large research projects on these topics in a range of African countries, in particular in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, and DR Congo.


Graham K. Brown is Professor of International Development and Head of School at the School of Social Sciences, UWA. Trained as a political scientist, Professor Brown works at the intersection of political science and development economics, with key interests in inequality, identity, and political mobilisation. He has worked extensively in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia. He is Research Associate at the Universities of Oxford, Leuven, and Auckland, and has held visiting research positions at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Geert Bourgeois
1. Introduction: Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, Arnim Langer, Graham K. Brown, and Hanne Albers
PART I: ISSUES AND DYNAMICS
2. Political versus Sociological Time: The Fraught World of Timelines and Deadlines, Roger Mac Ginty
3. Needs versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Post-Conflict, Tony Addison, Rachel Gisselquist, Miguel Nino-Zarazua, and Saurabh Singhal
4. Economic Reconstruction and Reforms in Post-Conflict Countries, Graciana del Castillo
5. Timing and Sequencing in Post-Conflict Elections, Benjamin Reilly
6. Democratization After Civil War: Timing and Sequencing of Peacebuilding Reforms, Anna Jarstad
7. Civil Society Building in Post-Conflict Countries, Graham K. Brown
8. Sequencing Next Generation Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Peace Processes, Robert Muggah and Chris O'Donnell
9. The Role of Foreign Aid in Post-Conflict Countries, Leonce Ndikumana
10. Sequencing Trauma Recovery and Reconciliation Interventions in Post-Conflict Settings, Laurie Anne Pearlman and Ervin Staub
11. The Politics of Peace Education in Post-Conflict Countries, Lynn Davies
12. Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Considerations for Timing and Sequencing, Jamie Rowen
PART II: COUNTRY EXPERIENCES
13. Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding in Burundi, Janvier D. Nkurunziza
14. Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding Efforts in DR Congo, Sara Hellmuller
15. Timing and Sequencing in Peacebuilding: The Case of Nigeria's Niger Delta Amnesty Programme, Ukoha Ukiwo
16. Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding Efforts in South Sudan, David J. Francis
17. Transitional Justice without a Peaceful Transition-The Case of Post-Gaddafi Libya, Mark Kersten
18. Northern Ireland: Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, Jennifer Todd
19. Agrarian Debates in the Colombian Peace Process: Complex Issues, Unlikely Reformers, Unexpected Enablers, Francisco Gutierrez Sanin
20. Neoliberal Reforms, Reparations, and Transitional Justice Measures in Torn-Apart Peru, 1980-2015, Maria Eugenia Ulfe
21. Timing and Sequencing Peace in Aceh, Damien Kingsbury
22. Prolonged Transition and Setback in Reforms: Timing, Sequencing, and Contestations over Reforms in Post-Conflict Nepal, Mahendra Lawoti
23. Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, Oliver Walton
PART III: CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
24. Timing and Sequencing of Peacebuilding Policies: People-Centred Prioritization and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Graham K. Brown and Arnim Langer