New Book in the Blue Book Series: Post-Conflict Reconstruction

The latest book in the blue book series of the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict has just been released:

Horst Fischer & Noelle Quénivet (eds), Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Nation- and/or State-Building, Bochumer Schriften zur Friedenssicherung und zum humanitären Völkerrecht, Band 52, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, 2005, 194 pp., ISBN 3-8305-1003-9

Table of Contents

Foreword
Noëlle Quénivet
Lessons Learned and Applied? Post-Conflict Reconstruction:
Nation- or State-Building in Iraq 9

Introduction
Dirk Salomons
In Search of Credibility and Capacity: The Role of the United Nations in
Nation-Building 23

Country Reports
Erica Harper
United Nations Transitional Administration: Missions in State or
Nation-Building? 33

Manit Sum
State Building in a Post-Conflict Environment: Cambodia’s Experience 55
Brigitte Piquard
Nation-Building in Afghanistan: War Heritage and Sustainable
Peace Process 65

M.A. Mohamed Salih
Current Patterns of State Building in East Africa 95

Thematic Reports
Peter van der Vaart
The Role of UNHCR in Helping Refugees Return to Post-Conflict States 127

Carsten Stahn
Justice under Transitional Administration: Contours and Critique
of a Paradigm 141

Milbert D. Shin
The Role of Civilian Police in Peace-Building Operations and the
Importance of Training Police Forces in Post-Conflict States 169

Conclusion
Howard Roy Williams
The Reconstruction of Iraq amid the Realities of Failed Assumptions:
Consequences of the Actions of a Trusteeship of the Powerful 185

Final Declaration
The 4th EDUSAT Conference 193