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Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins

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Authors:
  1. Balázs Áron Kovács

    1. Mindanao, Philippines

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  • The first critical appraisal of this scope of the concept of peace infrastructures since it entered mainstream peace-building through its adoption by UNDP
  • Argues that the model of peace infrastructure which has come to dominate the discourse and practice is deeply statist, and sees peace infrastructures as a more efficient means to liberal peace-building
  • Adds to the already significant post-liberal peace discourse a more pointed discussion on statism, and approaches its subject not from a post-structuralist but from neo-Weberian and sociocultural evolutionary angle

Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Preface

    • Balázs Áron Kovács
    Pages 1-17

  3. Peacebuilding-as-Statebuilding—A Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Introduction to Part I

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 21-27

    3. Peace-building

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 29-52

    4. State-building

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 53-92

    5. State Formation, the Local and Hybridity

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 93-105

    6. Peace Infrastructures

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 107-160

  4. Peaceful and Prosperous Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Introduction to Part II

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 163-166

    3. Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities—The PAMANA Framework

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 167-187

    4. Sorsogon: Field Research Findings

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 189-223

    5. Back in Manila: PAMANA—Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 225-256

    6. Whither Peace Infrastructures?

      • Balázs Áron Kovács
      Pages 257-282

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 283-303
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Mindanao, Philippines

    Balázs Áron Kovács

About the author

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.

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