Building a Peace Economy?: Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) - Hardcover

Peterson, Jenny H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719087309 ISBN 13: 9780719087301

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and transforming them into more peaceful economic and political relationships. Through this examination, both the problems of liberal modes of peacebuilding, implemented by the development-security industry, and opportunities for policy innovation are explored.

Useful charts and frameworks throughout the book provide the reader with a range of analytical tools that can be easily used to explore war economies and related policies in a range of contexts, making this book an essential read for students, policy makers and aid practitioners working in a range of disciplines and conflict-affected areas.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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About the Author

Jenny H. Peterson is Lecturer in Humanitarian and Conflict Response at the University of Manchester -- .

From the Back Cover

This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities into economic relationships which support peace, not war, the book then offers a sustained critique of the reasons for limited success in this policy field. The inability of the range of international actors involved in this policy area, the development-security industry (DSI), to bring about more peaceful political-economic relationships is shown to be a result of liberal biases, resulting conceptual lenses and operational tendencies within this industry. A detailed case study of responses to organised crime in Kosovo offers an in-depth exploration of these problems, but also highlights opportunities for policy innovation.

This book offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones, and the programmes aimed at managing them. Summaries of key arguments and frameworks, found within each chapter, provide accessible templates for both students and aid practitioners seeking to understand war economies and policy reactions in a range of other contexts. It also offers insight into how to alter and improve policy responses in other cases. As such, the book is accessible to a range of readers, including students interested in peace, conflict and international development as well as policy makers and practitioners seeking new ways of understanding war economies and improving responses to them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719087309
• ISBN 13: 9780719087301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232