Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-319-89565-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4065 g

Reihe: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kovács, Balázs Áron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments IIITable of Contents IVTable of Illustrations VIFigures VIIChapter 1 – Preface 1Peace-building 3Why Peace Infrastructures Now and Why in the Philippines? 6Methodological Note 10The Structure of the Book 15Part I – Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding – A Landscape 19Chapter 2 – Peace-building 252.1 – From Peace-building to State-building – the diffusion of a cultural construct 36Chapter 3 – State-building 463.1 – Statism 533.2 – Putting the State Back into History – And History into the State 68Chapter 4 – State Formation, the Local and Hybridity 874.1 – The Local 914.2 – Hybridity 95Chapter 5 – Peace Infrastructures 995.1 – Practice 1005.2 – Theory 1105.3 – The Creation of Infrastructures for Peace 127Part II – Peaceful and Prosperous Communities 154Chapter 6 – Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities – The PAMANA Framework 1576.1 – Mission, Objectives, Strategies 1586.2 – Coverage and Area Selection 1626.3 – Structure 1656.4 – Pillar 2 1676.5 – Origins and Complementary Programmes 172Chapter 7 – Sorsogon: Field Research Findings 1797.1 – General Observations 1797.2 – Project Outcomes in the Field Research Area 1857.3 – How Stable Gains? 211Chapter 8 – Back in Manila: PAMANA – Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State 2178.1 – The Broader Context 2178.2 – State-building at the Margins, State Transformation in the Centre 235Chapter 9 – Whither Peace Infrastructures? 2499.1 – Peace-building, Peace Infrastructures, and PAMANA 2519.2 – Possible Pathways 2679.3 – What to Do with Peace Infrastructures? 2719.4 – Back to the Foundations 274List of Frequently Used Acronyms and Abbreviations 277List of References 282

Über Autor(innen)

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.