Table Of ContentWhose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political
Economy of Peacebuilding
NewSecurityChallengesSeries
GeneralEditor:StuartCroft,ProfessorofInternationalSecurityintheDepartmentof
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ChristopherFarrington(editor)
GLOBALCHANGE,CIVILSOCIETYANDTHENORTHERNIRELANDPEACEPROCESS
ImplementingthePoliticalSettlement
KevinGillan,JennyPickerillandFrankWebster
ANTI-WARACTIVISM
NewMediaandProtestintheInformationAge
AndrewHoskinsandBenO’Loughlin
TELEVISIONANDTERROR
ConflictingTimesandtheCrisisofNewsDiscourse
MichaelPugh,NeilCooperandMandyTurner(editors)
WHOSEPEACE?CRITICALPERSPECTIVESONTHEPOLITICALECONOMY
OFPEACEBUILDING
BrianRappert
BIOTECHNOLOGY,SECURITYANDTHESEARCHFORLIMITS
AnInquiryintoResearchandMethods
BrianRappert(editor)
TECHNOLOGYANDSECURITY
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1. Peacebuilding—Casestudies. 2. Peacebuilding—Economic
aspects—Casestudies. I. Pugh,MichaelC.(MichaelCharles),1944–
II. Cooper,Neil,1962– III. Turner,Mandy,1968–
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTable viii
ListofContributors ix
ListofAbbreviationsandAcronyms xiv
PrefaceandAcknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1
MichaelPugh,NeilCooperandMandyTurner
PartI ThePoliticalEconomyofLiberalWarand
Peace
1 ThePoliticalEconomyofPeaceProcesses 11
JanSelby
2 TheGenderedImpactofPeace 30
DonnaPankhurst
3 NeoliberalismVersusPeacebuildinginIraq 47
EricHerring
PartII Trade
4 TradingwithSecurity:TradeLiberalisationand
Conflict 67
SusanWillett
5 CorporateSocialResponsibility 85
SalilTripathi
6 AsGoodasitGets:SecuringDiamondsinSierraLeone 103
NeilCooper
PartIII Employment
7 FromWagingWartoPeaceWork:LabourandLabour
Markets 121
ChristopherCramer
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8 Employment,LabourRightsandSocialResistance 139
MichaelPugh
9 SecuritisingtheEconomyofReintegrationinLiberia 157
KathleenM.Jennings
PartIV Diasporas
10 ThreeDiscoursesonDiasporasandPeacebuilding 173
MandyTurner
11 DiasporaEngagementinPeacebuilding:Empiricaland
TheoreticalChallenges 191
KennethBush
12 RwandeseDiasporasandtheReconstructionofa
FragilePeace 206
RebeccaDavies
PartV BorderlandsandtheCartographyofViolent
Economies
13 War,PeaceandthePlacesinBetween:WhyBorderlands
areCentral 225
JonathanGoodhand
14 MicrofinanceandBorderlands:Impactsof‘Local
Neoliberalism’ 245
MilfordBateman
15 PotentialDifference:InternalBorderlandsinAfrica 266
StephenJackson
PartVI CivilSociety
16 WelfareandtheCivilPeace:PovertywithRights? 287
OliverP.Richmond
17 PeaceConstituenciesinPeacebuilding:TheMesasde
Concertacio´ninGuatemala 302
Ce´cileMouly
18 ElSalvador:TheLimitsofaViolentPeace 318
MoHume
Contents vii
PartVII GlobalGovernance
19 Post-ConflictStatebuilding:GovernanceWithout
Government 337
DavidChandler
20 TheUNPeacebuildingCommission:TheRiseandFall
ofaGoodIdea 356
MatsBerdal
21 MaterialReproductionandStatenessinBosniaand
Herzegovina 373
BeritBliesemanndeGuevara
Conclusion:ThePoliticalEconomyofPeacebuilding–Whose
Peace?WhereNext? 390
MichaelPugh,NeilCooperandMandyTurner
Index 398
List of Figures and Table
Figures
6.1 OfficialSierrraLeonediamondexports 104
6.2 ThediamondpyramidinSierraLeone 110
Table
4.1 StatisticalprofileofvulnerableLDCs,2003and2004 72
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List of Contributors
Milford Batemanisafreelanceconsultantspecialisinginissuesofsustain-
ablelocaleconomicandsocialdevelopment,mainlyworkinginthecountries
of Southeast Europe and the Middle East. He is also Visiting Professor of
EconomicsattheUniversityofJurajDobrilaPula,Croatia.
Mats Berdal is Professor of Security and Development, Department of War
Studies,King’sCollegeLondon,andVisitingProfessor,NationalDefenceand
CommandCollege,Oslo.From2000to2003hewasDirectorofStudiesatthe
InternationalInstituteforStrategicStudies.HehasfocusedontheUN,peace-
keepingandthepoliticaleconomyofarmedconflictandistheco-editorwith
Spyros Economides of United Nations Interventionism, 1991–2004 (2007). He
editedStudiesinInternationalRelations:EssaysbyPhilipWindsor(2002)andis
completingabookonTheUNandtheSearchforInternationalOrder.
BeritBliesemanndeGuevaraisResearchAssistantandPhDcandidateatthe
InstituteofInternationalPolitics,HelmutSchmidtUniversity,Hamburg,and
HeadoftheGermanPoliticalScienceAssociationworkinggrouponOrders
of Violence. Her publicationsinclude articles on post-conflict statebuilding
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, war economies and violent orders in Peru and
northeastIndia,andColumbianguerrillawebsites.
Kenneth Bush is Associate Professor of Peace Studies, St. Paul University,
Ottawa, Canada. He has worked widely with non-governmental, govern-
mentalandmultilateralactorsinconflict-proneareas,particularlySriLanka.
HewasSpecialAdviseronHumanitarianIssuestotheCanadianGovernment
whenitservedontheUNSecurityCouncil(1998–2000).Heistheauthorof
TheIntra-GroupDimensionsofEthnicConflict(2003)andofnumerouschapters
onpeacebuildinganddevelopment.HehaspublishedinGlobalGovernance,
CanadianForeignPolicyandtheCanadianJournalofDevelopmentStudies.
DavidChandlerisProfessorofInternationalRelations,CentrefortheStudy
of Democracy, University of Westminster. He is the founding editor of the
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. His research focuses on new forms
of international intervention and regulation, particularly those projected
in the language of ethical foreign policy, the rule of law, human security,
empowerment,democratization,statecapacity-building,humanrights,civil
society development, anti-corruption, country ‘ownership’ and ‘pro-poor’
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