Whose peace?: critical perspectives on the political economy of peacebuilding

The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political economies characterized by the legaciesof disruption to production and exchange, by population displacement, poverty, and by 'criminality'. 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 Transformationof 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 'InternationalPeacekeeping' 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'. INDICE: Introduction; 'M.Pugh, N.Cooper 'and' M.Turner' - PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LIBERAL WAR AND PEACE - The Political Economy of Peace Processes; 'J.Selby' - The Gendered Impact of Peace; 'D.Pankhurst' - Nationalism Versus Peacebuilding in Iraq; 'E.Herring' - PART II: TRADE - Trading with Security: Trade Liberalization and Conflict; 'S.Willett' - Corporate Social Responsibility; 'S.Tripathi' - As Good as it Gets: Securing Diamonds in Sierra Leone; 'N.Cooper' - PART III: EMPLOYMENT - From Waging War to Peace Work: Labour and Labour Markets; 'C.Cramer' - Employment, Labour Rights and Social Resistance; 'M.Pugh - 'Securitizing the Economy of Reintegration in Liberia; 'K.Jennings' -PART IV: DIASPORAS - Three Discourses on Diasporas and Peacebuilding; 'M.Turner' - Diaspora Engagement in Peacebuilding: Empirical and Theoretical Challenges; 'K.Bush' - Rwandese Diasporas and the Reconstruction of a Fragile Peace; 'R.Davies' - PART V: BORDERLANDS AND THE CARTOGRAPHY OF VIOLENT ECONOMIES - War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central; 'J.Goodhand' -Microfinance and Borderlands: Impacts of Local Neoliberalism; 'M.Bateman' - Potential Difference: Internal Borderlands in Africa; 'S.Jackson' - PART VI: CIVIL SOCIETY - Welfare and the Civil Peace: Poverty with Rights?; 'O.P.Richmond' - Peace Constituencies in Peacebuilding: The 'mesas de concertación' in Guatemala; 'C.Mouly' - El Salvador: The Limits of a Violent Peace; 'M.Hume' - PARTVII: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE - Post-Conflict State-Building: Governance Without Government; 'D.Chandler' - The UN Peacebuilding Commission: The Rise and Fall of a Good Idea; 'M.Berdal' - Material Reproduction and Stateness in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 'B.Bliesemann de Guevara' - Conclusion: The Political Economy of Peacebuilding: Whose Peace? Where Next?; 'M.Pugh, N.Cooper 'and' M.Turner' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57335-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 440
• Fecha Publicación: 31/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés