Reading List: Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace
Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives
Eds. Mats Berdal & Achim Wennmann
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Adelphi Paper #412-13 (Athens log-in available)
This Adelphi offers a series of economic perspectives on conflict resolution, showing how the challenges of peacebuilding can be more effectively tackled. From the need to marry diplomatic peacemaking with development efforts,and activate the private sector in the service of peacebuilding aims, to the use of taxes and natural-resource revenues as a financial base for sustainable peace, this book considers how economic factors can positively shape and drive peace processes. It examines the complex ways in which power and order may be manifested in conflict zones, where unpalatable compromises with local warlords can often be the first step towards a more lasting settlement.
Be sure to check out Chapter 10 — Crime, Corruption and Violent Economies — by our new King’s confrere, James Cockayne.
Full chapter list:
Introduction: Mats Berdal
Chapter One: Peace Processes, Business and New Futures After War: Achim Wennmann
Chapter Two: Stabilising Fragile States and the Humanitarian Space: Robert Muggah
Chapter Three: Assessing Linkages Between Diplomatic Peacemaking and Developmental Peacebuilding Efforts: Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart, Blair Glencorse
Chapter Four: The Bretton Woods Institutions, Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: Graciana del Castillo
Chapter Five: Aid and Fiscal Capacity Building in Post-Conflict Countries: James Boyce
Chapter Six: Valuable Natural Resources in Conflict-Affected States: Paivi Lujala, Siri Aas Rustad, Philippe Le Billon
Chapter Seven: Foreign Direct Investors in Conflict Zones: Andreea Mihalache-O’keef, Tatiana Vashchilko
Chapter Eight: War Transitions and Armed Groups: Jennifer Hazen
Chapter Nine: State Failure and Ungoverned Space: Ken Menkhaus
Chapter Ten: Crime, Corruption and Violent Economies: James Cockayne
Conclusion: Achim Wennmann
