The Post-Conflict Environment: Investigation and CritiqueDaniel Bertrand Monk, Jacob Mundy In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopment—and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international technocratic paradigm of peacebuilding. Key international stakeholders—from activists to politicians, humanitarian agencies to financial institutions—characterize disparate sites as “weak,” “fragile,” or “failed” states and, as a result, prescribe peacebuilding techniques that paradoxically disable effective management of post-conflict spaces while perpetuating neoliberal political and economic conditions. Treating all efforts to represent post-conflict environments as problematic, the goal becomes understanding the underlying connection between post-conflict conditions and the actions and interventions of peacebuilding technocracies. |
Contents
A Genealogy Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy | 1 |
Sierra Leone and the Missing International Political Economy of Civil Wars Catherine Goetze | 25 |
Chapter 2 Peacebuilding The Performance and Politics of Trauma in Northern Iraq Sarah Keeler | 68 |
Chapter 3 Transitional Justice Algeria and the Violence of National Reconciliation Jacob Mundy | 103 |
Protracted Refugee Situations and the New Palestinian Normal Romola Sanyal | 135 |
Building Kosovos Postconflict Environment Andrew Herscher | 158 |
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