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Post- Conflict Studies This book examines how the violence of conflict is transformed in the post- conflict period. Post- conflict studies seek to illuminate, theorize, and narrate the pro- cesses by which societies transition from periods of overt and violent con- flict to periods of relative stability and peace. Most of the research carried out on post- conflict societies has taken place within disciplinary bounds. In contrast, this volume breaches those boundaries; though each author is grounded in a particular discipline, the chapters have been written in a spirit of interdisciplinarity. The focus of the volume is how the violence of conflict is transformed in the post- conflict period into processes that the editors have categorized as criminalization, medicalization, and missionization. Comprised of essays written by a diverse group of scholars and activists from anthropology, political science, international relations, law, education, religion, and military history, each section of the book looks at the concept of post- conflict in a way that problematizes its common usage and highlights the importance of strongly interdisciplinary research into post- conflict societies. This book will be of interest to students of war and conflict studies, peace studies, security studies, and IR in general. Chip Gagnon is Associate Professor of Politics at Ithaca College, USA. Keith Brown is Professor (Research) of International Studies and Director of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, Brown Univer- sity, USA. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Series Editors: Tom Woodhouse and Oliver Ramsbotham University of Bradford Peace and Security in the Postmodern World The OSCE and conflict resolution Dennis J.D. Sandole Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict Managing violent pasts Marie Breen Smyth Peace in International Relations Oliver P. Richmond Social Capital and Peace- Building Creating and resolving conflict with trust and social networks Edited by Michaelene Cox Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Contributions from the private sector to address violent conflict Derek Sweetman Creativity and Conflict Resolution Alternative pathways to peace Tatsushi Arai Climate Change and Armed Conflict Hot and Cold Wars James R. Lee Transforming Violent Conflict Radical disagreement, dialogue and survival Oliver Ramsbotham Governing Ethnic Conflict Consociation, identity and the price of peace Andrew Finlay Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution Debating peace in Northern Ireland Edited by Katy Hayward and Catherine O’Donnell Economic Assistance and Conflict Transformation Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland Sean Byrne Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance Beyond the metropolis David Roberts A Post- Liberal Peace Oliver P. Richmond Peace Research Theory and practice Peter Wallensteen Reconciliation after Terrorism Strategy, possibility or absurdity? Judith Renner and Alexander Spencer Post- War Security Transitions Participatory peacebuilding after asymmetric conflicts Edited by Veronique Dudouet, Hans Giessman and Katrin Planta Rethinking Peacebuilding The quest for just peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans Edited by Karin Aggestam and Annika Björkdahl Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding The continuing crisis in Darfur Johan Brosché and Daniel Rothbart Peacebuilding and NGOs State–civil society interactions Ryerson Christie Peace Negotiations and Time Deadline diplomacy in territorial disputes Marco Pinfari History Education and Post- Conflict Reconciliation Reconsidering joint textbook projects Edited by Karina V. Korostelina and Simone Lässig Conflict Resolution and Human Needs Linking theory and practice Edited by Kevin Avruch and Christopher Mitchell Human Rights Education and Peacebuilding A comparative study Tracey Holland and J. Paul Martin Post- Conflict Studies An interdisciplinary approach Edited by Chip Gagnon and Keith Brown Arab Approaches to Conflict Resolution Mediation, negotiation and settlement of political disputes Nahla Hamdan and Frederic S. Pearson UN Peace Operations and International Policing Negotiating complexity, assessing impact and learning to learn Charles T. Hunt Post- Conflict Studies An interdisciplinary approach Edited by Chip Gagnon and Keith Brown Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 Chip Gagnon and Keith Brown The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Post-conflict studies : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Chip Gagnon and Keith Brown. pages cm -- (Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Postwar reconstruction. 2. Postwar reconstruction--Case studies. 3. Peace-building. 4. Peace-building--Case studies. I. Gagnon, Chip. II. Brown, Keith. HV639.P658 2014 303.6'9--dc23 2014003292 ISBN: 978-0-415-74235-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-81350-9 (ebk) Typeset in Baskerville by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear Contents Notes on contributors ix Foreword xii PETER KATZENSTEIN Acknowledgments xiv 1 Introduction 1 CHIP GAGNON, STEFAN SENDERS, AND KEITH BROWN PART I The post- conflict concept 17 2 The origins of “post- conflict” 19 AIDA HOZIC´ 3 Reconsidering “post-c onflict” in the Amer ican way of war tradition: a short conceptual history 39 COLONEL ISAIAH (IKE) WILSON III PART II Recasting mission 57 Introduction to Part II 59 CHIP GAGNON 4 Democracy promotion as mission 63 CHIP GAGNON 5 Accompaniment as mission: a successful model from Colombia 79 KIM MARIE LAMBERTY viii Contents 6 Gender, security, and religious freedom in post- conflict societies 98 EVELYN BUSH PART III Criminalization 119 Introduction to Part III 121 KEITH BROWN 7 Post- conflict justice enclaves: the development of a war crimes justice model following the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina 125 CHRIS ENGELS 8 Unknowing the other: a short essay on criminalization through narrative in postwar El Salvador 142 ELLEN MOODIE PART IV Reflections on post- conflict as practice 155 Introduction to Part IV 157 KEITH BROWN 9 Post- colonial subjectivities in the post- conflict aid triangle: the drama of educational missionization in the Thai–Burma borderlands 161 ROSALIE METRO 10 The sum of tiny things: civil society, democracy promotion and The Ugly Amer ican in Macedonia, 1995–2004 182 KEITH BROWN 11 Social scientists in post- war contexts: bridging the gap between reflection and action 198 ELTON SKENDAJ 12 Conclusion: toward a field of post- conflict studies 213 KEITH BROWN AND CHIP GAGNON Index 224 Contributors Keith Brown is Professor (Research) of International Studies and Dir- ector of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) at the Watson Institute at Brown University. He holds a BA in Classics from the University of Oxford and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. He taught at Bowdoin College and the University of Wales before joining the Watson Institute in 1999. His research focuses primarily on the politics, culture, and history of the Balkans. His most recent book is Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia (Indiana University Press, 2013), and he is cur- rently working on an oral history of the end of Yugoslav Macedonia. Evelyn Bush is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Fordham University. Her research focuses on religion and human rights. Chris Engels is a US attorney who has worked in post- conflict rule of law development projects in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herze- govina. He most recently served as Access to Justice and Integration Section Leader for Afghanistan Justice Sector Support Program (JSSP), a US State Department, Bureau of International Narcotics, and Law Enforcement Affairs project based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Chip Gagnon is Associate Professor of Politics at Ithaca College, and a long- time Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is author of The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s (Cornell University Press, 2004). His cur- rent research focuses on democracy assistance in the Balkans and more generally the concept of missionary work applied broadly to democracy promotion and other secular forms of international intervention. Aida Hozic´ is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Uni- versity of Florida. Her research is situated at the intersection of polit- ical economy, cultural studies, and international security. She is the author of Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the Amer ican Economy (Cornell University Press, 2002) and a number of articles in journals and edited volumes. Her current project explores the resurrection of
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