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Post-conflict scenarios are often proposed for Arab countries that have witnessed significant changes and civil wars. Yet the plans for reconciliation, transitional justice, and the return of the displaced often overlook the real conditions that make these recommendations impossible.
This book provides a critical analysis of current post-conflict frameworks for Syria and Iraq. Drawing on empirical research, the book shows that reconciliation and reconstruction scenarios need to be considered alongside the realities on the ground. It argues that Iraq and Syria exist in a condition of 'conflict transformation' rather than of 'conflict termination', because the extreme changes that accompanied these countries into war continue long after the conflicts end. Furthermore, the chapters highlight why experts should not seek solutions in culturalist terms and ancestral enmities, or rely on the wartime status quo. Rather, they should look to the specific military, political, economic and socio-cultural conditions that require different solutions.
A critical analysis of existing post-conflict frameworks, their applicability and their potential outcomes in Iraq and Syria, the book is a vital contribution to post-conflict studies. It highlights the need for new approaches to reconstruction and peacebuilding in Arab countries and points to how they should be found.
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Reconstituting the Post-conflict Register, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Vienna, Austria and Harout Akdedian, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Part 1: Conceptual and Global Exploration of the 'Post-conflict' Register
2. Peacebuilding: A Liberal State Building Imperative in Post-conflict Registers? Perspectives from Comparison, Balazs Kovacs, UN University for Peace, Costa Rica
3. Ceasefire Agreements and the Post-conflict Register: A Continuation of war by Other Means, Marika Sosnowski, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany
Part 2: Reconstitution of Power in Syria and Iraq: Military Standoffs and Conflict Fragility
4. Paramilitarism in Syria and Iraq: The Interpenetration of Militias and the State, Ugur Ungor, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
5. Conflict Transformation, Security Fragmentation, and Government Architecture in Post-War Southern Syria, Abdullah Al-Jabassini, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
6. From Devolution to Reconstitution? Dynamics of the Local Devolution of State Power in Syria and Iraq: Tribal Auxiliaries in the Margin, Teeside University, UK
7. Conflicted Counterinsurgency: Daesh vs Iraq's Security Arena, Jessica Watkins, London School of Economcis, UK
Part 3: The Political Economy and Geopolitics of Emergent Orders in Syria and Iraq
8. The War Economy in Syria: Consolidating the pre-2011 Dynamics of Syria's Political Economy, Joseph Daher, Lausanne University, Switzerland
9. Turkey's Geopolitical Role in Shaping Political Vectors and Patterns of Power Configuration in Iraqi Kurdistan, Bahadir Dincer, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Germany
10. The Shadow Economy of Shabbiha Networks: Local Systems of Patronage under the Assad Rule, Ali Aljasem, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Part 4: The Body Politic Reconfigured: Between Social Engineering and Community Resistance
11. The State from Tahrir Square: Understanding Protestors' Conceptions of the Iraqi State, Irene Costantini, University of Naples, Italy & Yasmin Chilmeran, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
12. Resisting War in Syria: Civilian-Led Community Protection Efforts and their Limits, Harout Akdedian, Central European University, Vienna, Austria and Ali Aljasem, University of Montreal, Canada
13. For Assad's sake - Religion, the State and Refitting Syrian Islam, Hammoud Hammoud, Free University of Berlin, Germany
14. Building, Living, Feeling the space of Aleppo City: Social Polarization at the Heart of Population Engineering, Marie Kostrz, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
15. Dilemmas of Interventions in Northern Syria: Refugee Return, Reconstruction, and Displacements, Zeynep Sahin-Mencütek, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany & Bahadir Dincer, BICC Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, Germany
