Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins

This book offers a critical examination of 'infrastructures for peace', originally proposed as a framework of conflict transformation. Through an exploration of the statist ideological underpinnings of peace-building, it traces how the concept was transformed by institutional actors - international organisations and states - into a tool to further the state-building goals of liberal peace-building.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - Preface.- Part I - Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding - A Landscape.- Chapter 2 - Peace-building.- Chapter 3 - State-building.- Chapter 4 - State Formation, the Local and Hybridity.- Chapter 5 - Peace Infrastructures.- Part II - Peaceful and Prosperous Communities.- Chapter 6 - Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities - The PAMANA Framework.- Chapter 7 - Sorsogon: Field Research Findings.- Chapter 8 - Back in Manila: PAMANA - Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State.- Chapter 9 - Whither Peace Infrastructures?.

About the author

Balázs Áron Kovács is the manager of the Philippines programme of forumZFD, a German NGO working on conflict transformation. He is based in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines. Dr Kovacs's research in the field of critical peace and conflict studies focuses on state-society interactions in the context of peace and state-building.

Summary

This book offers a critical examination of ‘infrastructures for peace’, originally proposed as a framework of conflict transformation. Through an exploration of the statist ideological underpinnings of peace-building, it traces how the concept was transformed by institutional actors – international organisations and states – into a tool to further the state-building goals of liberal peace-building.

Product details

• Authors: Balázs Áron Kovács
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783030078058
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3007805-8
• No. of pages: 303
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 303 p. 17 illus.
• Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Internationale Beziehungen, Asien, B, Peace, Politik und Staat, Conflict Studies, Manila, Asia, International Relations, Politics & government, Political Science and International Studies, International Relations Theory, Peace studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, International Security Studies, Asia—Politics and government, Asian Politics, Security, International, Peace and Conflict Studies, counterinsurgency programme, Sorsogon, Maoism, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process