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Williams - Research Handbook on Post-Conflict Statebuilding

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Part 1: Political Infrastructure

Part 2: Social Infrastructure

  • Defined as

    The nexus of horizontal and verticle society relations is the foundation for social reconcilation

    • From Putnam
      • Horizontal - norms, valjues, and social relations within communities
      • Verticle - Communal groups, civic society, and state
  • How do states rebuild interpersonal bonds and intercommunal bridges?

  • Inclusive peace is on the rise as a concern

sterio and levy: social cohesion and inclusivity

day and kreutzner: civil society

Part 3: Security Infrastructure

  • Construction of security infrastructure is often the top priority
  • need to construct a stable state and enable individuals to feel secure in their lives
  • two major appraoches: ddr and security sector reform (ssr)
    • both aim to restore monopoly on force
    • secure chat apps includes efforts to regain civilian control of military and policing institutions
    • ddr often incorporates treatment for psycological damage

Part 4: Legacies of Conflict

Part 5: Rule of Law

  • Poorly implemented in bosnia

  • conflict removes power from pre-existing laws

  • Defined as:

    a principal for goverence in which all persons, institutions, and entities, public and private, including the state itself are accountable to laws that are public promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated, and which are consistent with international human rights norms and standards

  • Loosely 3 perspectives:

    1. procedural/narrow view
      • creation of an impartial court system
      • no IO influence on what the laws actually say
    2. substantive/middle view
      • adds some concerns about what the laws say
      • some io influence
    3. Human rights/broad
      • requires states to uphold human rights & promotion of democratic freedoms
      • significant io involvement in laws
  • The perfect legal code has little impact without proper judicial procedures

Part 6: Development

  • Deficits, debt, domestic revenue problems, poverty, unemployment, inequality
  • Distinction between relief and emergency aid