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Int J Polit Cult Soc (2013) 26:107125
DOI 10.1007/s10767-012-9118-3
Yosef Jabareen
Published online: 21 February 2012# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Abstract In recent decades, the world has seen many internal violent conflicts that dramatically affect the social, economic, and political conditions of human geographies at multiple spatial scales, from the national level to the scale of individual cities and communities. Geography, as a multidimensional discipline, should be in a unique position to contribute to understanding of such conflicts and of post-conflict geographies and their futures in terms of reconstruction and rebuilding. However, in the geography literature, there is little attention given to post-conflict human geographies and their related subjects. At present, there are many emerging post-conflict geographies, which would greatly benefit from theoretical and practical knowledge to guide their future. This paper aims to contribute to building a foundation for developing knowledge on reconstruction of post-conflict and ongoing conflict human geographies. Based on the existing multidisciplinary bodies of knowledge on post-conflict reconstruction, this paper develops a new conceptual framework for post-conflict reconstruction and for ongoing conflict reconstruction as a more adequate way to understand and plan reconstruction in the face of ongoing conflict and offers new insights for the reconstruction agenda.
Keywords Post-conflict reconstruction . Ongoing conflict reconstruction . Failed states
Y. Jabareen (*)
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel e-mail: [email protected]
Yosef. Jabareene-mail: [email protected]
Y. Jabareen
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Y. Jabareen
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Y. Jabareen
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, USA
Conceptualizing Post-Conflict Reconstructionand Ongoing Conflict Reconstruction of Failed States
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Introduction
Since World War II, international actors such as the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)in addition to donor governments and international and national non-governmental organization (NGO)have paid increasing attention and committed specific resources to the task of post-conflict reconstruction (Sulatan 2005). The post-war occupations of Germany and Japan set standards for an unprecedented mission of post-conflict reconstruction and nation-building in a long list of countries, including Germany (1945), Japan (1945), Congo (1961), Namibia (1989), El Salvador (1991), Cambodia (1993), Somalia (1992),...