Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Political Economy of Peace Processes....Pages 11-29
The Gendered Impact of Peace....Pages 30-46
Neoliberalism Versus Peacebuilding in Iraq....Pages 47-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Trading with Security: Trade Liberalisation and Conflict....Pages 67-84
Corporate Social Responsibility....Pages 85-102
As Good as it Gets: Securing Diamonds in Sierra Leone....Pages 103-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
From Waging War to Peace Work: Labour and Labour Markets....Pages 121-138
Employment, Labour Rights and Social Resistance....Pages 139-156
Securitising the Economy of Reintegration in Liberia....Pages 157-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Three Discourses on Diasporas and Peacebuilding....Pages 173-190
Diaspora Engagement in Peacebuilding: Empirical and Theoretical Challenges....Pages 191-205
Rwandese Diasporas and the Reconstruction of a Fragile Peace....Pages 206-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
War, Peace and the Places in Between: Why Borderlands are Central....Pages 225-244
Microfinance and Borderlands: Impacts of ‘Local Neoliberalism’....Pages 245-265
Potential Difference: Internal Borderlands in Africa....Pages 266-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Welfare and the Civil Peace: Poverty with Rights?....Pages 287-301
Peace Constituencies in Peacebuilding: The Mesas de Concertación in Guatemala....Pages 302-317
El Salvador: The Limits of a Violent Peace....Pages 318-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Governance Without Government....Pages 337-355
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
The UN Peacebuilding Commission: The Rise and Fall of a Good Idea....Pages 356-372
Material Reproduction and Stateness in Bosnia and Herzegovina....Pages 373-389
Conclusion: The Political Economy of Peacebuilding — Whose Peace? Where Next?....Pages 390-397
Back Matter....Pages 398-408