Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins

• Main Author: Kovács, Balázs Áron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
• Subjects: Peace.; International relations.; Asia-Politics and government.; Security, International.; Peace Studies.; Conflict Studies.; International Relations Theory.; Asian Politics.; International Security Studies.
• Physical Description: XIV, 303 p. 17 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319895666
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89566-6

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. 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.