Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and East Timor

Cover
Half title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
	Peacebuilding and legitimacy
	Peacebuilding in the post-Cold War era
	Two key phenomena of contemporary peacebuilding
	Theoretical gap
	Chapter overview: Arguments and investigation
1. Constructing or eroding legitimacy in peacebuilding
	Legitimacy and compliance
	Source of legitimacy
	Building or eroding legitimacy: a reciprocal process
	The dilemma of peacebuilding in establishing legitimacy
	The argument: four critical factors
	Existing literature: Coercion- and resource-centric
	How the key factors influence legitimacy
	From repeated compliance to legitimate domestic government
	Methodology: Detailed case studies in peacebuilding states
2. Compliance and noncompliance with disbanding illegal armed groups
	Background of Afghanistan: history of fighting against foreign troops
	The 11 September attack and 2001 Bonn Conference
	After Bonn: implementing the time and challenges
	DDR and DIAG in Afghanistan
	Reasons for compliance in Kapisa Province
	Reasons for noncompliance in Jalrez District in Wardak Province
	Delaying DIAG economic development projects and spreading mistrust
	Impacts of the delay of DIAG projects on the credibility of the Afghan government
	Implications of DIAG for legitimacy construction and erosion
3. Worsening security conditions and reconciliation efforts: insurgency noncompliance with the government
	Ten-year security trend
	Increased levels of Afghan government and international forces
	Analysis of worsening security: coercive-centric account
	Alternative account: consistent gap between Pashtun and non-Pashtun
	Missed opportunities? Reconciliation in Afghanistan
	Risk of premature or inadequate diagnosis: theoretical implications
	Failure of the past reconciliation program
	Creating a new reconciliation framework in Afghanistan
	Controversy in constructing a new reconciliation mechanism
	Afghan Peace and Reintegration Programme (APRP)
	Development of reconciliation after APRP, and current challenges
	The struggle to create a sustainable framework of political negotiation
4. Conclusion
	Peacebuilding in Iraq: the UN’s later political role
	Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone: Politically inclusive, with a central UN role
	Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste: unprecedented UN role, efforts towards inclusiveness
	Summary of key factors, policy implications, and future study
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Index
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