Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins [electronic resource] /
Kovács, Balázs Áron.author.
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.
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?.
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.
Peace.
International relations.
Asia-Politics and government.
Security, International.
Peace Studies.
Conflict Studies.
International Relations Theory.
Asian Politics.
International Security Studies.