Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia write by Christine Cheng. This book was released on 2018-05-11. Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberia's hard-won peace. Building on fieldwork and socio-historical analysis, this book shows how extralegal groups are driven to provide basic governance goods in their bid to create a stable commercial environment. This is a story about how their livelihood strategies merged with the opportunities of Liberia's post-war political economy. But it is also a context-specific story that is rooted in the country's geography, its history of state-making, and its social and political practices. This volume demonstrates that extralegal groups do not emerge in a vacuum. In areas of limited statehood, where the state is weak and political authority is contested, where rule of law is corrupted and government distrust runs deep, extralegal groups can provide order and dispute resolution, forming the basic kernel of the state. This logic counters the prevailing 'spoiler' narrative, forcing us to reimagine non-state actors and recast their roles as incidental statebuilders in the evolutionary process of state-making. This leads to a broader argument: it is trade, rather than war, that drives contemporary statebuilding. Along the way, this book poses some uncomfortable questions about what it means to be legitimately governed, whether our trust in states is ultimately misplaced, whether entrenched corruption is the most likely post-conflict outcome, and whether our expectations of international peacebuilding and statebuilding are ultimately self-defeating.
Post-conflict Trans & Extra Gro
Post-conflict Trans & Extra Gro - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-conflict Trans & Extra Gro write by Cheng. This book was released on 2015. Post-conflict Trans & Extra Gro available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding write by Carl Bruch. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance. Natural resources are essential to sustaining people and peace in post-conflict countries, but governance failures often jeopardize such efforts. This book examines the theory, practice, and often surprising realities of post-conflict governance, natural resource management, and peacebuilding in fifty conflict-affected countries and territories. It includes thirty-nine chapters written by more than seventy researchers, diplomats, military personnel, and practitioners from governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations. The book highlights the mutually reinforcing relationship between natural resource management and good governance. Natural resource management is crucial to rebuilding governance and the rule of law, combating corruption, improving transparency and accountability, engaging disenfranchised populations, and building confidence after conflict. At the same time, good governance is essential for ensuring that natural resource management can meet immediate needs for post-conflict stability and development, while simultaneously laying the foundation for a sustainable peace. Drawing on analyses of the close relationship between governance and natural resource management, the book explores lessons from past conflicts and ongoing reconstruction efforts; illustrates how those lessons may be applied to the formulation and implementation of more effective governance initiatives; and presents an emerging theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students. Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high-value resources, land, water, livelihoods, and assessing and restoring natural resources.
Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia
Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia write by Atsushi Yasutomi. This book was released on 2022-03-30. Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the roles that pro- and anti-government militias, private armed groups, vigilantes, and gangs play in local communities in the new democracies of Southeast Asia. Scholars have typically characterized irregular forces as spoilers and infiltrators in post-conflict peacebuilding processes. The contributors to this book challenge this conventional understanding of irregular forces in Southeast Asia, demonstrating that they often attract solid support from civilians and can be major contributors to the building of local security — a process by which local residents, in the absence of an effective police force, develop, partner or are at least included in the management of community crimes and other violence. They analyze irregular forces’ dealings with political actors at the community level, explaining why and how forces are incorporated in and collaborate with legitimate institutions without using violence against them. Offering a new approach to dealing with irregular forces in Southeast Asia, contributors explore new theoretical frameworks that are better suited for evaluating irregular forces’ relationship to different security providers and the political environments in the region. Specifically, they examine case studies from Indonesia, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, and Thailand. A valuable resource for researchers, students and practitioners in the areas of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and security governance, especially those with a focus on Southeast Asia. This book will also be of great interest to scholars of the sociology and anthropology of the region.
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa write by Robtel Neajai Pailey. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.
