Nation-Building Unraveled? Aid, Peace, and Justice in Afghanistan
Antonio Donini, Norah Niland and Karin Wermester, editors | | ISBN: 978-1-56549-181-6 $45.00 |
| ISBN: 978-1-56549-180-9 $26.50 |
| 2003/236 pages/LC: 2003016534 A Kumarian Press Book |
DESCRIPTION
Using Afghanistan as an illustrative case, Nation-Building Unraveled? offers insiders’ perspectives on how emerging international practices are affecting the roles, policies, and impacts of UN agencies and international NGOs involved in peacebuilding efforts.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Antonio Donini is senior researcher at Tufts University's Feinstein International Center. Norah Niland is research associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Karin Wermester is on the staff of the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator's Office in Sudan.
CONTENTS
- Foreword—David Rieff.
- Introduction—the Editors.
- Afghanistan, War, Aid, and International Order—N. Stockton.
- GOVERNING THE PERIPHERY WITH AID, PEACE, AND JUSTICE.
- The Politics of Peace-building: Year One, From Bonn to Kabul—J.A. Thier.
- Justice Postponed: The Marginalization of Human Rights in Afghanistan—N. Niland.
- The Struggle for Hearts and Minds: The Military, Aid, and the Media—K. Clark.
- Afghan Women on the Margins of the Twenty-first Century—S. Azarbaijani-Moghaddam.
- POLITICS AND HUMANITARIANISM AFTER SEPTEMBER 11.
- Principles, Politics, and Pragmatism in the International Response to the Afghan Crisis—A. Donini.
- The Dilemma of Humanitarianism in the Post-Taliban Transition—A. Costy.
- Political Projects—N. Leader and M.H. Atmar.
- Old Woods, New Paths, and Diverging Choices for NGOs—P. O'Brien.
- CONCLUSION.
- Aid, Peace, and Justice in a Reordered World—B.D. Jones.
"A volume that speaks to its title.... an excellent account which demonstrates the worth of subjecting foreign policy to rigorous challenge from the ground up."—International Affairs
"Rarely does a book appear with this much insight and crucial, real-time information about a crisis still in progress."—Barbara Crossette, UN Wire
"Nation-Building Unraveled? draws on the Afghan example as a case study that can be applied to other areas in the world where the international community faces similar challenges. It provocatively questions the traditional point of view that greater coordination between political, humanitarian, and human rights action brings about better results in peacebuilding."—Humanitarian Affairs Review
"This is a timely book, with analysis solidly rooted in the realities of humanitarian action ... and should interest all who want to understand the changing politicization of aid."—Journal of Peace Research