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.

The first critical appraisal of this scope of the concept of peace infrastructures since it entered mainstream peace-building through its adoption by UNDP Argues that the model of peace infrastructure which has come to dominate the discourse and practice is deeply statist, and sees peace infrastructures as a more efficient means to liberal peace-building Adds to the already significant post-liberal peace discourse a more pointed discussion on statism, and approaches its subject not from a post-structuralist but from neo-Weberian and sociocultural evolutionary angle

Autorentext
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
Chapter 1 Preface.- Part I Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding A Landscape.- Chapter 2 Peace-building.- Chapter 3 State-building.- Chapter 4 State Formation, the Local and Hybridity.- Chapter 5 Peace Infrastructures.- Part II Peaceful and Prosperous Communities.- Chapter 6 Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities The PAMANA Framework.- Chapter 7 Sorsogon: Field Research Findings.- Chapter 8 Back in Manila: PAMANA Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State.- Chapter 9 Whither Peace Infrastructures?.