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Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: The Challenges of Security, Welfare and Representation

Rolf Schwarz

Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

This article introduces a critical approach to the analysis of post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB). It acknowledges the latter’s complex nature, questions sophisticated social engineering policies, is grounded in a historical understanding and subscribes to local ownership. The complexities, subtleties and ambiguities of historical processes of state formation across Europe and the world point towards the need for a similar sensitization in the approach to PCPB through externally driven state-building. This sensitization can best be captured through three issue-areas: security, welfare and representation. These themes are commonly seen as the core functions of modern states and are thus central to PCPB. The challenge for the international community hence revolves around rethinking several core concepts, such as state-building, security, development aid, civil society and sovereignty. Overall, such a critical approach to PCPB does not negate the possibility of social engineering, but questions its limits and the usefulness of blueprint solutions.

Key Words: State failure • humanitarian intervention • functions of the modern state • sovereignty • state-building

Security Dialogue, Vol. 36, No. 4, 429-446 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0967010605060447
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