Sukanya Podder | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Post-conflict security interventions and arrangements are a vital component of international conflict management and yet attempts to ascertain the impact and underlying logics of such activities have proven inadequate. This book seeks to redress this lacuna by investigating the ways in which the effects of security management through Security Sector Reform (SSR), Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and stabilization measures in particular are conceptualized and operationalized. The book looks at the complex entanglements of transnational security governance as well as the interactions between 'local' and 'external' actors, practices and discourses. Furthermore it develops a framework that enables academics and practitioners alike to think beyond programmatic targets (number of demobilized combatants for instance) and focus instead on the interactions between international and local actors and the facto contribution of such programmes to conflict transformation, peace and security promotion.