State Formation After Civil War: Local Government in National Peace Transitions

ISBN-13: 9781472462183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 268 str.

Derek M. Powell

Opis

This book examines the transition from civil war to peace. It explores how it can be understood as a `national’ experience and not simply as the sum of what international peace builders do. Mining ideas drawn from the literatures on peacebuilding, state building, state formation, decentralization, development, and federalism, as well as evidence from 19 major peace processes, including a detailed study of the South Africa transition in the 1990s, the book proposes a new heuristic. It will be of important for officials and practitioners working in post-conflict situations, as well as academics and students of comparative constitutional law, peace building and state building.

O autorze

Derek Powell is an Associate Professor in Law and Head of the Multi-Level Government Initiative in the Dullah Omar Institute of Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights at the University of the Western Cape. He served as a deputy director-general, senior civil servant and policy advisor in the South African government under the Mandela and Mbeki administrations (1996-2009), where he worked on key policy processes to establish and reform the systems of democratic local government and intergovernmental relations. He was head of the research department at the Constitutional Assembly during the process to draft a democratic constitution for South Africa (1994-96). His research interests focus on comparative constitutional studies, international peace and security law and politics, local government, intergovernmental relations, public finance management, and more recently on using large datasets in researching complex problems of governance that cut across the law, state, economy, and society. He is co-editor of Jaap de Visser, Nico Steytler, Derek Powell, Ebenezer Durojaye eds., Constitution Building in Africa (Nomos, 2015).