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Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (Routledge Global Security Studies) - Softcover

 
9780415544405: Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (Routledge Global Security Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415544408 ISBN 13: 9780415544405
Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War, such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), and security-sector reform (SSR)

Although the international aid and security sectors exhibit an expanding appetite for peace-support operations in the 21st Century, the effectiveness of such interventions are largely untested. This book aims to fill this evidentiary gap and issues a challenge to 'conventional' approaches to security promotion as currently conceived by military and peace-keeping forces, drawing on cutting-edge statistical and qualitative findings from war-torn areas including Afghanistan, Timor Leste, Sudan, Uganda, Colombia and Haiti. By focusing on specific cases where the United Nations and others have sought to contain the (presumed) sources of post-conflict violence and insecurity, it lays out a new research agenda for measuring success or failure.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peacekeeping, conflict resolution, conflict and development and security studies in general.

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About the Author

Robert Muggah is Research Director of the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415544408
ISBN 13 
9780415544405
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
312
Editor
Muggah Robert