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Title Post-conflict studies : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Chip Gagnon and Keith Brown
Published London : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 231 pages)
Series Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution
Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I The post-conflict concept; 2 The origins of "post-conflict"; 3 Reconsidering "post-conflict" in the American way of war tradition: a short conceptual history; Part II Recasting mission; Introduction to Part II; 4 Democracy promotion as mission; 5 Accompaniment as mission: a successful model from Colombia; 6 Gender, security, and religious freedom in post-conflict societies; Part III Criminalization; Introduction to Part III
7 Post-conflict justice enclaves: the development of a war crimes justice model following the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina8 Unknowing the other: a short essay on criminalization through narrative in postwar El Salvador; Part IV Reflections on post-conflict as practice; Introduction to Part IV; 9 Post-colonial subjectivities in the post-conflict aid triangle: the drama of educational missionization in the Thai-Burma borderlands; 10 The sum of tiny things: civil society, democracy promotion and The Ugly American in Macedonia, 1995-2004
11 Social scientists in post-war contexts: bridging the gap between reflection and action12 Conclusion: toward a field of post- conflict studies; Index
Summary This book examines how the violence of conflict is transformed in the post-conflict period. Post-conflict studies seek to illuminate, theorise, and narrate the processes by which societies transition from periods of overt and violent conflict to periods of relative stability and peace. Most of the research carried out on post-conflict societies has taken place within disciplinary bounds. In contrast, this volume breaches those boundaries; though each author is grounded in a particular discipline, the chapters have been written in a spirit of interdisciplinarity. The focus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Postwar reconstruction.
Postwar reconstruction -- Case studies
Peace-building.
Peace-building -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Peace-building
Postwar reconstruction
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Gagnon, V. P. (Valère Philip)
Brown, Keith
ISBN 9781317801740
1317801741
1306971705
9781306971706