Economies of Peace

<p>Looking beyond and beneath the macro level this book examines the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms and socio-economic peacebuilding programmes with and international interventions in people’s lived realities in conflict-affected societies.</p><p></p><p>The contributions argue that disregarding socio-economic aspects of peace and how they relate to the everyday leaves a vacuum in the understanding of the formation of post-conflict economies. To address this gap the book outlines and deploys the concept of ‘post-conflict economy formation’. This is a multifaceted phenomenon including both formal and informal processes that occur in the post-conflict period and contribute to the introduction adjustment or abolition of economic practices institutions and rules that inform the transformation of the socio-economic fabric of the society. The contributions engage with existing statebuilding and peacebuilding debates while bringing in critical political economy perspectives. Specifically they analyse processes of post-conflict economy formation and the navigation between livelihood needs; local translations of the liberal hegemonic order; and different sparse manifestations of welfare states. The book concludes that a sustainable peace requires the formation of peace economies: economies that work towards reducing structural inequalities and grievances of the (pre-)conflict period as well as addressing the livelihood concerns of citizens.</p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Civil Wars</i>.</p>