Abstract
Recent history has been marked by the rise of post-conflict intervention as a component of military and foreign policy, as a form of humanitarianism and as a challenge to Westphalian notions of state sovereignty. The terms of debate, the history of the discipline and the evolution of scholarship and practice remain relatively under-examined, particularly in the post-9/11 period in which post-conflict recovery came to be construed as an extension of conflict and as a domain concerned principally with the national security of predominantly Western countries. The subsequent politicisation of post-conflict recovery and entry of post-conflict assistance into the political economy of conflict have fundamentally changed policy making and practice. The authors argue that research into post-conflict recovery, which must become increasingly rigorous and theoretically grounded, should detach itself from the myriad political agendas which have sought to impose themselves upon war-torn countries. The de-politicisation of post-conflict recovery, the authors conclude, may benefit from an increasingly structured 'architecture of integrated, directed recovery'.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1069-1086 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Third World Quarterly |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2009 |
Keywords
- COMPLEX POLITICAL EMERGENCIES
- RECONSTRUCTION
- AFGHANISTAN
- PEACE
- MODERNIZATION
- PERSPECTIVE
- DILEMMAS
- SECURITY
- PARADIGM
- RISKS