Table of Contents

Conceptual roots. Political, civilian and military dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction and development: Coordination, complementarity and local ownership; International approaches and experiences in post-conflict reconstruction and development post-conflict reconstruction and development; Looking in or transforming up - Conceptual challenges of the liberal roots of peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction and development; Developmental peace missions: The South African conceptual approach; The ethics question: An interim framework. Role-players in context. The AU, post-conflict reconstruction and development: Experiences and challenges; Post-conflict reconstruction and development: Why gender matters; UN post-conflict programming under challenge in post-electoral DRC; Post-war programming in Sierra Leone: Revisiting the challenges and achievements of the UN. Policy and practice. Foreign policy, the military and post-conflict reconstruction and development; Campaigns or contingency? South Africa, Africa and 21st-century defence design. From defence in a democracy to defence, security and development: Whiter defence thinking in South Africa?

About the Author

Theo Neethling is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is widely published in accredited academic journals and currently serves on the editorial board of Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies and the Journal of Contemporary History.

Heidi Hudson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Africa Studies (CAS) at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her areas of research are gender and the politics of security, with a current focus on the postcolonial discursive and material dynamics of peacebuilding in Africa. She is co-editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and serves on the editorial board of, among others, International Peacekeeping and Africa Insight.