This book offers a critical examination of 'infrastructures for peace', originally proposed as a framework of conflict transformation. Through an exploration of the statist ideological underpinnings of peace-building, it traces how the concept was transformed by institutional actors - international organisations and states - into a tool to further the state-building goals of liberal peace-building.

Table of ContentsIV

Table of IllustrationsVI

FiguresVII

Chapter 1 Preface1

Peace-building3

Why Peace Infrastructures Now and Why in the Philippines?6

Methodological Note10

The Structure of the Book15

Part I Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding A Landscape19

Chapter 2 Peace-building25

Chapter 3 State-building46

3.1 Statism53

3.2 Putting the State Back into History And History into the State68

Chapter 4 State Formation, the Local and Hybridity87

4.2 Hybridity95

Chapter 5 Peace Infrastructures99

5.1 Practice100

5.2 Theory110

5.3 The Creation of Infrastructures for Peace127

Part II Peaceful and Prosperous Communities154

Chapter 6 Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities The PAMANA Framework157

6.1 Mission, Objectives, Strategies158

6.2 Coverage and Area Selection162

6.3 Structure165

6.5 Origins and Complementary Programmes172

Chapter 7 Sorsogon: Field Research Findings179

7.1 General Observations179

7.2 Project Outcomes in the Field Research Area185

7.3 How Stable Gains?211

Chapter 8 Back in Manila: PAMANA Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State217

8.1 The Broader Context217

8.2 State-building at the Margins, State Transformation in the Centre235

Chapter 9 Whither Peace Infrastructures?249

9.1 Peace-building, Peace Infrastructures, and PAMANA251

9.2 Possible Pathways267

9.3 What to Do with Peace Infrastructures?271

9.4 Back to the Foundations274

List of Frequently Used Acronyms and Abbreviations277

List of References282