Chapter 1
The post-conflict paradox:
Engaging war, creating peace
In cases of civil war or intrastate conflict, the signing of a peace agreement brings international resources and personnel to bear on disarming, demobilizing, and reintegrating soldiers, reforming the security sector, building institutions, establishing good governance, conducting truth and reconciliation projects, and instituting transitional justice (Anderlini 2007: 15). When implemented, each of these macro level enterprises includes actors and organizations on the meso and grassroots levels (Lederach 1997: 44–55). These goals also attempt to engage causal dynamics and effects of the war while at the same time building a national framework that creates ...
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