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.

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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.

Inhalt
AcknowledgmentsIIITable of ContentsIVTable of IllustrationsVIFiguresVIIChapter 1 Preface1Peace-building3Why Peace Infrastructures Now and Why in the Philippines?6Methodological Note10The Structure of the Book15Part I Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding A Landscape19Chapter 2 Peace-building252.1 From Peace-building to State-building the diffusion of a cultural construct36Chapter 3 State-building463.1 Statism533.2 Putting the State Back into History And History into the State68Chapter 4 State Formation, the Local and Hybridity874.1 The Local914.2 Hybridity95Chapter 5 Peace Infrastructures995.1 Practice1005.2 Theory1105.3 The Creation of Infrastructures for Peace127Part II Peaceful and Prosperous Communities154Chapter 6 Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities The PAMANA Framework1576.1 Mission, Objectives, Strategies1586.2 Coverage and Area Selection1626.3 Structure1656.4 Pillar 21676.5 Origins and Complementary Programmes172Chapter 7 Sorsogon: Field Research Findings1797.1 General Observations1797.2 Project Outcomes in the Field Research Area1857.3 How Stable Gains?211Chapter 8 Back in Manila: PAMANA Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State2178.1 The Broader Context2178.2 State-building at the Margins, State Transformation in the Centre235Chapter 9 Whither Peace Infrastructures?2499.1 Peace-building, Peace Infrastructures, and PAMANA2519.2 Possible Pathways2679.3 What to Do with Peace Infrastructures?2719.4 Back to the Foundations274List of Frequently Used Acronyms and Abbreviations277List of References282