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.

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 - inte...

Table 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?.