Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins

ISBN-13: 9783319895659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 303 str.

Balazs Aron Kovacs

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments III

Table of Contents IV

Table of Illustrations VI

Figures VII

Chapter 1 – Preface 1

Peace-building 3

Why Peace Infrastructures Now and Why in the Philippines? 6

Methodological Note 10

The Structure of the Book 15

Part I – Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding – A Landscape 19

Chapter 2 – Peace-building 25

2.1 – From Peace-building to State-building – the diffusion of a cultural construct 36

Chapter 3 – State-building 46

3.1 – Statism 53

3.2 – Putting the State Back into History – And History into the State 68

Chapter 4 – State Formation, the Local and Hybridity 87

4.1 – The Local 91

4.2 – Hybridity 95

Chapter 5 – Peace Infrastructures 99

5.1 – Practice 100

5.2 – Theory 110

5.3 – The Creation of Infrastructures for Peace 127

Part II – Peaceful and Prosperous Communities 154

Chapter 6 – Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities – The PAMANA Framework 157

6.1 – Mission, Objectives, Strategies 158

6.2 – Coverage and Area Selection 162

6.3 – Structure 165

6.4 – Pillar 2 167

6.5 – Origins and Complementary Programmes 172

Chapter 7 – Sorsogon: Field Research Findings 179

7.1 – General Observations 179

7.2 – Project Outcomes in the Field Research Area 185

7.3 – How Stable Gains? 211

Chapter 8 – Back in Manila: PAMANA – Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State 217

8.1 – The Broader Context 217

8.2 – State-building at the Margins, State Transformation in the Centre 235

Chapter 9 – Whither Peace Infrastructures? 249

9.1 – Peace-building, Peace Infrastructures, and PAMANA 251

9.2 – Possible Pathways 267

9.3 – What to Do with Peace Infrastructures? 271

9.4 – Back to the Foundations 274

List of Frequently Used Acronyms and Abbreviations 277

List of References 282

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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.

​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.