Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes in Conflict-Affected Societies

ISBN-13: 9780367730536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Werner Distler; Elena B. Stavrevska; Birte Vogel

Opis

This book examines the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms and socio-economic peacebuilding programmes with, and international interventions in, people’s lived realities in conflict-affected societies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Civil Wars.

Spis treści

Introduction – Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies  1. Precarity in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia: What About the Workers?  2. Looking into the Past to See the Future? Lessons Learned from Self-Management for Economies in Post-Conflict Societies of the Former Yugoslavia  3. The Mother, the Wife, the Entrepreneur? Women’s Agency and Microfinance in a Disappearing Post-Conflict Welfare State Context  4. Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-Economic Transactions in Intervention Societies  5. Peacekeeping as Enterprise: Transaction, Consumption, and the Political Economy of Peace and Peacekeeping  6. Street Level Bureaucrats and Post-conflict Policy-making: Corruption, Correctives, and the Rise of Veterans’ Pensions in Timor-Leste  7. ‘And Everybody Did Whatever They Wanted to Do’: Informal Practices of International Statebuilders in Kosovo

O autorze

Werner Distler is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Studies and the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 138 ‘Dynamics of Security’ at the University of Marburg, Germany. His work focuses on knowledge and authority in intervention, discourses and practices of securitisation in international statebuilding, and post-conflict political economy.

Elena B. Stavrevska is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She is a political scientist interested in peace processes and their intersectional and political economy discontents.

Birte Vogel is a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. Her current research is interested in the connections between economics, peace, and conflict.