Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding

The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political economies characterized by the legacies of disruption to production and exchange, by population displacement, poverty, and by #x18;criminality#x19;.

Michael Pugh is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bradford, UK, as well as editor of the journal International Peacekeeping and the Cass Peacekeeping book series. He was a member of the ESRC-funded Transformation of War Economies team, edited Regeneration of War-Torn Societies (2000) and co-authored War Economies in a Regional Context (2004). Neil Cooper is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Security in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. His research interests include the arms trade, arms control and the political economy of civil conflicts. His recent publications include an edited special issue on war economies entitled Conflict, Security and Development, co-authorship of War Economies in a Regional Context: The Challenges of Transformation (2004) and articles in Security Dialogue, Contemporary Security Policy, Review of International Studies and Development and Change. Mandy Turner is Lecturer in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. She is Assistant Editor of International Peacekeeping and has published articles on peacebuilding, regulating the trade in conflict goods, diasporas and peacebuilding, and state-building in Palestine in Conflict, Security and Development; Democratization; Journal of Corporate Citizenship; World Today; and the Guardian.

Introduction; M.Pugh, N.Cooper and M.Turner
PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LIBERAL WAR AND PEACE
The Political Economy of Peace Processes; J.Selby
The Gendered Impact of Peace; D.Pankhurst
Nationalism Versus Peacebuilding in Iraq; E.Herring
PART II: TRADE
Trading with Security: Trade Liberalization and Conflict; S.Willett
Corporate Social Responsibility; S.Tripathi
As Good as it Gets: Securing Diamonds in Sierra Leone; N.Cooper
PART III: EMPLOYMENT
From Waging War to Peace Work: Labour and Labour Markets; C.Cramer
Employment, Labour Rights and Social Resistance; M.Pugh
Securitizing the Economy of Reintegration in Liberia; K.Jennings
PART IV: DIASPORAS
Three Discourses on Diasporas and Peacebuilding; M.Turner
Diaspora Engagement in Peacebuilding: Empirical and Theoretical Challenges; K.Bush
Rwandese Diasporas and the Reconstruction of a Fragile Peace; R.Davies
PART V: BORDERLANDS AND THE CARTOGRAPHY OF VIOLENT ECONOMIES
War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central; J.Goodhand
Microfinance and Borderlands: Impacts of Local Neoliberalism; M.Bateman
Potential Difference: Internal Borderlands in Africa; S.Jackson
PART VI: CIVIL SOCIETY
Welfare and the Civil Peace: Poverty with Rights?; O.P.Richmond
Peace Constituencies in Peacebuilding: The mesas de concertación in Guatemala; C.Mouly
El Salvador: The Limits of a Violent Peace; M.Hume
PART VII: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Post-Conflict State-Building: Governance Without Government; D.Chandler
The UN Peacebuilding Commission: The Rise and Fall of a Good Idea; M.Berdal
Material Reproduction and Stateness in Bosnia and Herzegovina; B.Bliesemann de Guevara
Conclusion: The Political Economy of Peacebuilding: Whose Peace? Where Next?; M.Pugh, N.Cooper and M.Turner