Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019 Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Series

Chapter 1 – Preface.- Part I – Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding – A Landscape.- Chapter 2 – Peace-building.- Chapter 3 – State-building.- Chapter 4 – State Formation, the Local and Hybridity.- Chapter 5 – Peace Infrastructures.- Part II – Peaceful and Prosperous Communities.- Chapter 6 – Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities – The PAMANA Framework.- Chapter 7 – Sorsogon: Field Research Findings.- Chapter 8 – Back in Manila: PAMANA – Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State.- Chapter 9 – Whither Peace Infrastructures?.

Balázs Áron Kovács is the manager of the Philippines programme of forumZFD, a German NGO working on conflict transformation. He is based in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines. Dr Kovacs’s research in the field of critical peace and conflict studies focuses on state-society interactions in the context of peace and state-building.

The first critical appraisal of this scope of the concept of peace infrastructures since it entered mainstream peace-building through its adoption by UNDP Argues that the model of peace infrastructure which has come to dominate the discourse and practice is deeply statist, and sees peace infrastructures as a more efficient means to liberal peace-building Adds to the already significant post-liberal peace discourse a more pointed discussion on statism, and approaches its subject not from a post-structuralist but from neo-Weberian and sociocultural evolutionary angle