Civil Law, Foreign & International Law, International & World Politics, Political Science, Law, International Relations 

The Cass series on peacekeeping, 

Can international organization have a decisive, substantial enduring impact upon the domestic transition of a society emerging from conflict? How successful has UN assistance been in terms of consolidating peace and development in transitional societies? To what extent is the UN ‘staying the course’ of transition to consolidation, by going beyond peacekeeping to political reconstruction and indigenous capacity building?
This volume highlights some of the major conceptual and practical challenges facing Post-conflict societies and the international community in managing transition. International specialists consider the political, economic, moral and legal aspects of rendering international assistance that is successful in (re) building the foundations for sustainable peace. This can only be achieved through legitimate institutions and social relations that will prevent the recurrence of violence and war.
Pressing issues of Post-conflict situations are explored, including the preventive component of post-conflict peace building, the challenges of transitional justice, the role of collective action for the advancement of human security, and the evolving nature and responsibility of UN peace operation in post-conflict environments.
Contributors examine the role of international financial and economic actors in post-war societies, the political economy of financing post-conflict missions, the peril of ill-conceived elections, and the role of civil administration in transition societies. The volume concludes with consideration of some of the key human challenges in the post-conflict peace building process: the return of refugees’ demobilization and re-integration of ex-combatants, and the psychological wounds inflicted by inter-communal war.
This timely reveals the delicate relationship, and sometimes tension, linking the individual, civil society, the state, and international organizations during the period of recovery from conflict.
 

A number of international contributors emphasize the conceptual and practical challenges facing post-conflict societies and the international community in the management of the transition from civil conflict to peaceful coexistence. - from Amzon 

Contents
1. Recovering from Civil Conflict…………………………………………..........................p. 1
Edward Newman and Albrecht Schnabel

2. Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Second
Generation Preventive Action…………………………………………....................................P.7
Albrecht Schnabel

3. ‘Transitional Justice’: The impact of Transnational
Norms and the UN……………………………………………………….....................................p. 31
Edward Newman

4. The UN, Peace keeping and Collective Human Security:
From An Agenda for peace to the Brahimi Report……………………........................P. 51
Sorpong Peou

5. On the Challenges and Achievements of
Reforming UN Peace Operations……………………………………….................................P.69
Jean-Marie Guehenno

6. World Bank, NGOs and the Private Sector
in Post-War Reconstruction……………………………………………..................................P. 81
Vensa Bojicic-Dzelilovic

7. Peace Operations Finance and the
Political Economy of a Way Out………………………………………................................P. 99
Jean Daudelin and Lee J.M.Seymour

8. Post Conflict Elections: Constraints and Dangers……………………................P. 118
Benjamin Reilly

9. Current International Civil Administration: The Need for Political Legitimacy Sally Morphet……………………………………………...................................................P. 140

10. Refuges and Post-Conflict Reconstruction:
A critical Perspective B.S.Chimni…………………………………… ...............................P. 163

11. Demobilization, Reintegration and Peacebuilding in Africa…………..............P. 181
Kees Kingma
12. Building Peace after Mass Crime Beatrice Pouligny………………….................P. 202