Economies of Peace

Werner Distler is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Studies and the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 138 'Dynamics of Security' at the University of Marburg, Germany. His work focuses on knowledge and authority in intervention, discourses and practices of securitisation in international statebuilding, and post-conflict political economy.

This book examines the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms and socio-economic peacebuilding programmes with, and international interventions in, people's lived realities in conflict-affected societies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Civil Wars.

Introduction - Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies 1. Precarity in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia: What About the Workers? 2. Looking into the Past to See the Future? Lessons Learned from Self-Management for Economies in Post-Conflict Societies of the Former Yugoslavia 3. The Mother, the Wife, the Entrepreneur? Women's Agency and Microfinance in a Disappearing Post-Conflict Welfare State Context 4. Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-Economic Transactions in Intervention Societies 5. Peacekeeping as Enterprise: Transaction, Consumption, and the Political Economy of Peace and Peacekeeping 6. Street Level Bureaucrats and Post-conflict Policy-making: Corruption, Correctives, and the Rise of Veterans' Pensions in Timor-Leste 7. 'And Everybody Did Whatever They Wanted to Do': Informal Practices of International Statebuilders in Kosovo