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This book sets out to understand the nature of
reconstruction planning after armed conflicts. It
attempts to catalogue and discuss the tasks involved
in the process of reconstruction planning. Case
of Bosnia and Herzegovina is examined in detail and
on the whole acts as the leit-motif for the study
and positions reconstruction in the broader context
of sustainable development. The rebuilding of war-
devastated countries and communities can be seen as
a series of non-integrated activities carried out
(and often imposed) by international agencies and
governments, serving political and other agendas.
The result is that calamities of war are often
accompanied by the calamities of reconstruction
without any regard to sustainable development. To
better understand the process of reconstruction the
book presents a qualitative inquiry based on the
Grounded Theory Method. The results is the
development of a conceptual model, called SCOPE
(Sustainable Communities in Post-Conflict
Environments) where a new paradigm on post-conflict
reconstruction emerges and incorporates a number of
approaches via a multidisciplinary and systems
thinking manner.
About the author
Dr. Tigran Haas is the Assistant Professor of Urban Planning & Design at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His expertise, current research and teaching focus on urban planning & design, post-conflict reconstruction, and strategic and project management.
