State Formation After Civil War

This book examines the transition from civil war to peace. It explores how it can be understood as a `national’ experience and not simply as the sum of what international peace builders do. Mining ideas drawn from the literatures on peacebuilding, state building, state formation, decentralization, development, and federalism, as well as evidence from 19 major peace processes, including a detailed study of the South Africa transition in the 1990s, the book proposes a new heuristic. It will be of important for officials and practitioners working in post-conflict situations, as well as academics and students of comparative constitutional law, peace building and state building.