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> <p>Introduction – Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies 1. Precarity in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia: What About the Workers? 2. Looking into the Past to See the Future? Lessons Learned from Self-Management for Economies in Post-Conflict Societies of the Former Yugoslavia 3. The Mother, the Wife, the Entrepreneur? Women’s Agency and Microfinance in a Disappearing Post-Conflict Welfare State Context 4. Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-Economic Transactions in Intervention Societies 5. Peacekeeping as Enterprise: Transaction, Consumption, and the Political Economy of Peace and Peacekeeping 6. Street Level Bureaucrats and Post-conflict Policy-making: Corruption, Correctives, and the Rise of Veterans’ Pensions in Timor-Leste 7. ‘And Everybody Did Whatever They Wanted to Do’: Informal Practices of International Statebuilders in Kosovo</p>