Building Sustainable Peace

Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding

Edited by Arnim Langer and Graham K. Brown

Comprehensive approach that helps the reader understand the wide range of perspectives and issues facing post-conflict countries
Combination of thematic and empirical chapters that provide strong analytical conclusions and a solid knowledge-base of case studies
Unique focus on timing and sequence that shows how different policies interact in post-conflict contexts
Examines what type of peacebuilding projects work best, when they should be implemented, and how different reforms interact

Building Sustainable Peace

Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding

Edited by Arnim Langer and Graham K. Brown

Description

Countries emerging from civil war or protracted violence often face the daunting challenge of rebuilding their economy while simultaneously creating the political and social conditions for a stable peace. The implicit assumption in the international community that rapid political democratisation along with economic liberalisation holds the key to sustainable peace is belied by the experiences of countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Often, the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction revolve around the timing and sequencing of different reform that may have contradictory implications. Drawing on a range of thematic studies and empirical cases, this book examines how post-conflict reconstruction policies can be better sequenced in order to promote sustainable peace. The book provides evidence that many reforms that are often thought to be imperative in post-conflict societies may be better considered as long-term objectives, and that the immediate imperative for such societies should be 'people-centred' policies.

Building Sustainable Peace

Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding

Edited by Arnim Langer and Graham K. Brown

Foreword, Geert Bourgeois
1:Introduction: Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, Arnim Langer, Graham K. Brown, and Hanne Albers
PART I: ISSUES AND DYNAMICS
2:Political versus Sociological Time: The Fraught World of Timelines and Deadlines, Roger Mac Ginty
3:Needs versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Post-Conflict, Tony Addison, Rachel Gisselquist, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, and Saurabh Singhal
4:Economic Reconstruction and Reforms in Post-Conflict Countries, Graciana del Castillo
5:Timing and Sequencing in Post-Conflict Elections, Benjamin Reilly
6:Democratization After Civil War: Timing and Sequencing of Peacebuilding Reforms, Anna Jarstad
7:Civil Society Building in Post-Conflict Countries, Graham K. Brown
8:Sequencing Next Generation Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Peace Processes, Robert Muggah and Chris O'Donnell
9:The Role of Foreign Aid in Post-Conflict Countries, Léonce Ndikumana
10:Sequencing Trauma Recovery and Reconciliation Interventions in Post-Conflict Settings, Laurie Anne Pearlman and Ervin Staub
11:The Politics of Peace Education in Post-Conflict Countries, Lynn Davies
12:Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Considerations for Timing and Sequencing, Jamie Rowen
PART II: COUNTRY EXPERIENCES
13:Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding in Burundi, Janvier D. Nkurunziza
14:Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding Efforts in DR Congo, Sara Hellmüller
15:Timing and Sequencing in Peacebuilding: The Case of Nigeria's Niger Delta Amnesty Programme, Ukoha Ukiwo
16:Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding Efforts in South Sudan, David J. Francis
17:Transitional Justice without a Peaceful Transition-The Case of Post-Gaddafi Libya, Mark Kersten
18:Northern Ireland: Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, Jennifer Todd
19:Agrarian Debates in the Colombian Peace Process: Complex Issues, Unlikely Reformers, Unexpected Enablers, Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
20:Neoliberal Reforms, Reparations, and Transitional Justice Measures in Torn-Apart Peru, 1980-2015, María Eugenia Ulfe
21:Timing and Sequencing Peace in Aceh, Damien Kingsbury
22:Prolonged Transition and Setback in Reforms: Timing, Sequencing, and Contestations over Reforms in Post-Conflict Nepal, Mahendra Lawoti
23:Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, Oliver Walton
PART III: CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
24:Timing and Sequencing of Peacebuilding Policies: People-Centred Prioritization and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Graham K. Brown and Arnim Langer

Building Sustainable Peace

Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding

Edited by Arnim Langer and Graham K. Brown

Author Information

Edited by Arnim Langer, Director, Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), KU Leuven, and Graham K. Brown, Professor of International Development and Head of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia

Arnim Langer is Director of the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), Associate Professor in International Relations and Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair in Building Sustainable Peace at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He is also a Research Associate at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) at the University of Bath. His research focuses on group behaviour and identity formation, the causes and consequences of violent conflict, the dynamics and persistence of horizontal inequalities, post-conflict economic reconstruction, DDR processes, and sustainable peace building and peace education in post-conflict countries. He has conducted extensive field research and is running large research projects on these topics in a range of African countries, in particular in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, and DR Congo.

Graham K. Brown is Professor of International Development and Head of School at the School of Social Sciences, UWA. Trained as a political scientist, Professor Brown works at the intersection of political science and development economics, with key interests in inequality, identity, and political mobilisation. He has worked extensively in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia. He is Research Associate at the Universities of Oxford, Leuven, and Auckland, and has held visiting research positions at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore.

Contributors:

Tony Addison, UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research;
Hanne Albers, University of Leuven;
Geert Bourgeois, Government of Flanders;
Graham K. Brown, University of Western Australia;
Lynn Davies, University of Birmingham;
Graciana del Castillo, Macroeconomics Advisory Group;
David J. Francis, University of Bradford;
Rachel Gisselquist, UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research;
Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, National University of Colombia;
Sara Hellmüller, Mediation Programme of Swisspeace;
Anna Jarstad, Umeå University;
Mark Kersten, London School of Economics;
Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University;
Arnim Langer, University of Leuven;
Mahendra Lawoti, Western Michigan University;
Roger Mac Ginty, University of Manchester;
Robert Muggah, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro;
Léonce Ndikumana, University of Massachusetts at Amherst;
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research;
Janvier Nkurunziza, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;
Chris O'Donnell, United Nations Department for Peacekeeping Operations;
Laurie Anne Pearlman, independent trauma consultant;
Benjamin Reilly, Murdoch University;
Jamie Rowen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
Saurabh Singhal, UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research;
Jennifer Todd, University College Dublin;
Ukoha Ukiwo, British Council in Abuja;
María Eugenia Ulfe, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú;
Oliver Walton, University of Bath