The Post-Conflict Environment
Investigation and Critique
Author(s)
Monk, Daniel Bertrand
Mundy, Jacob
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
100891Language
EnglishAbstract
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,â€_x009d_ “fragile,â€_x009d_ or “failedâ€_x009d_ states and, as a result, prescribe peacebuilding techniques that paradoxically disable effective management of post-conflict spaces while perpetuating neoliberal political and economic conditions.
Keywords
Political Science; International RelationsISBN
9780472900893Publisher
University of Michigan PressPublisher website
https://www.press.umich.edu/Publication date and place
2014Grantor
Imprint
University of Michigan PressClassification
International relations