Research Catalog

Title

New perspectives on liberal peacebuilding / edited by Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver P. Richmond.

Publication

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Newman, Edward, 1970-
• Paris, Roland, 1967-
• Richmond, Oliver P.
• United Nations University. Press.

Description

xi, 392 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Peacebuilding in conflict-prone or post-conflict countries -- such as East Timor, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone -- aims to prevent the re-emergence or escalation of violent conflict and establish a durable peace. This volume explores and critiques the 'liberal' premise of contemporary peacebuilding: the promotion of democracy, market-based economic reforms and a range of other institutions associated with 'modern' states as a driving force for building peace. Whilst focusing mainly upon cases of major UN peacebuilding, it also considers the implications and record of liberal peacebuilding through a wider range of experiences. It goes beyond the narrow focus on democracy and market economics by interrogating a wider area of peacebuilding activities, including the (re)construction of state institutions."--Publisher's description.
• Africa; Sierra Leone; Afghanistan; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Timor-Leste; Sri Lanka; Palestine; Israel; United Nations; Lebanon; Cambodia; Central America.

Subject

• Liberalism
• Peace-building

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver P. Richmond -- "Liberal" peacebuilding debates / Edward Newman -- Beyond liberal peace? Responses to "backsliding" / Oliver P. Richmond -- Towards life welfare / Michael Pugh -- Does liberal peacebuildinjg have a future / Roland Paris -- Transitional justice and the liberal peace / Chandra Lekha Sriram -- A critique of the political economy of the liberal peace : elements of an African eperience / M.A. Mohammed Salih -- Earth calling the liberals : locating the political culture of Sierra Leone as the terrain for "reform" / Ian Taylor -- Afghanistan : justice sector reform / Astri Suhrke and Kaja Borchgrevink -- Peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina : reflections on the development-democracy link / Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic -- "We just take what they offer" : community rempowerment in post-war Timor-Leste / Caroline Hughes -- The making of Sri Lanka's post-conflict economic package and the failure of the 2001-2004 peace process / Rajesh Venugopal -- Beware of liberal peacebuilders bearing gifts : the deviancy of liberal peace in Palestine and Israel / Jason Franks -- Liberal interventions, illiberal outcomes : the United Nations, western powers and Lebanon / Marie-Joëlle Zahar -- Re-examining liberal peacebuilding in light of realism and pragmatism : the Cambodian experience / Sorpong Peou -- Revisiting the "liberal peace" thesis applied to Central America : new insights for and against the Wilsonian approach / Carlo Nasi.

ISBN

• 9789280811742 (pbk.)
• 9280811746 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009031000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library