| The Post-Conflict Environment: Investigation and Critique Contributor(s): Monk, Daniel Bertrand (Author), Mundy, Jacob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472072234 ISBN-13: 9780472072231 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy |
| Dewey: 303.69 |
| LCCN: 2013051031 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
