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.

Chapter 1 - Preface.- Part I - Peacebuilding-as-statebuilding - A Landscape.- Chapter 2 - Peace-building.- Chapter 3 - State-building.- Chapter 4 - State Formation, the Local and Hybridity.- Chapter 5 - Peace Infrastructures.- Part II - Peaceful and Prosperous Communities.- Chapter 6 - Manila: Designing Peaceful and Prosperous Communities - The PAMANA Framework.- Chapter 7 - Sorsogon: Field Research Findings.- Chapter 8 - Back in Manila: PAMANA - Peace-building, State-building and the Contested State.- Chapter 9 - Whither Peace Infrastructures?.

Balázs Áron Kovács is the manager of the Philippines programme of forumZFD, a German NGO working on conflict transformation. He is based in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines. Dr Kovacs's research in the field of critical peace and conflict studies focuses on state-society interactions in the context of peace and state-building.