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Building a peace economy? : liberal peacebuilding and the development-security industry / by Jenny H. Peterson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New approaches to conflict analysisPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014Distributor: New York : Palgrave MacmillanDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0719087309
  • 1526102056
  • 152612937X
  • 1781706840
  • 9780719087301
  • 9781526102058
  • 9781526129376
  • 9781781706848
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 303.66 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ5538 .P48 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : war economies, peace economies and transformation -- War economy transformation : current policy options and issues -- Explaining the dynamics of transformation : the nature of the development-security industry -- Transforming a war economy : learning from the case of Kosovo -- Strengthening the rule of law : managing the criminal facets of war economies -- Privatisation : liberal reform and the creation of new conflict economies -- Customs reform : protecting borders, confirming statehood and transforming economies? -- The war economy transformation agenda : DSI approaches and behaviours.
Summary: This study 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : war economies, peace economies and transformation -- War economy transformation : current policy options and issues -- Explaining the dynamics of transformation : the nature of the development-security industry -- Transforming a war economy : learning from the case of Kosovo -- Strengthening the rule of law : managing the criminal facets of war economies -- Privatisation : liberal reform and the creation of new conflict economies -- Customs reform : protecting borders, confirming statehood and transforming economies? -- The war economy transformation agenda : DSI approaches and behaviours.

This study 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.

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