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List of illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
List of abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Dangerous divisions in the Ferghana Valley | p. 2 |
Discourses of danger and conflict in Central Asia | p. 4 |
Ethnography of aid for peace-building | p. 7 |
Standpoints and perspectives | p. 9 |
Organisation of the book | p. 11 |
Seeing like a project: three cases in the Ferghana Valley | p. 13 |
The approach for peace-building | p. 13 |
A short history of the Ferghana Valley | p. 15 |
Pulgon, Khalmion and Alga | p. 22 |
Khush'iar, Sogment and Charbak | p. 25 |
Aksai and Tojikon | p. 28 |
Sources of thought: the ideational background | p. 32 |
Water, ethnicity, and conflict: contested links | p. 32 |
The transformation of violent conflict: from causes to cures | p. 37 |
The role of power: between empowerment and resistance | p. 43 |
Liberal peace from `bottom-up' | p. 47 |
The way of the water: irrigation and conflict | p. 49 |
Better be the head of the water than the head of the people | p. 49 |
The fate of the land is the fate of people | p. 54 |
Close to water means close to God | p. 59 |
Irrigation, conflict and infrastructure | p. 63 |
White beards and active citizens: institutions for conflict transformation | p. 68 |
Community-based organisations and `local traditions' | p. 68 |
Institutional histories of elders and ashar | p. 71 |
White beards and active citizens: competing schemes | p. 76 |
Institutional interfaces: the Jangy Jer association | p. 79 |
The differing lives of organisations | p. 82 |
The crucible of harmony: violence and politics | p. 86 |
`Urgent! We have a conflict!' | p. 86 |
The politics of big (and not so big) men | p. 90 |
Altered states, altered conflicts | p. 94 |
Border posts: policing people, policing water | p. 97 |
On sports clubs and consensus pipelines | p. 100 |
Trouble on the margins: states, borders and people | p. 103 |
A project site for multiple aid agencies | p. 103 |
A history of border delimitation and conflict | p. 106 |
Border speak and delimitation politics | p. 112 |
Peace-building in the Ferghana Valley | p. 119 |
Conclusion | p. 124 |
Appendix: Overview of aid agencies and projects | p. 130 |
Regional Dialogue and Development | p. 130 |
Peaceful Communities Initiative | p. 131 |
Preventive Development Component/Programme | p. 132 |
Glossary | p. 134 |
Notes | p. 136 |
Bibliography | p. 150 |
Index | p. 164 |
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