Table of Contents

1. In Search of Peace. History, Basic Narrative, the Future of War, and the Rise of the Local. An Introduction with a Short Overview of the Contributions Trutz von Trotha Part I On the Theory of the Reconstruction of Peace after War and Violent Conflict 2. Comments on the Construction of Political Order: Social Contract Theories and Anthropological Observation Gordon R Woodman 3. Concepts of Violence and Peace in African Languages Wilhelm, JG Möhlig and Rüdiger Köppe 4. The ‘Peacemakers’ Dilemma’: The Role of NGOs in Processes of Peace-Building in Decentralised Conflicts Dieter Neubert Part II Power, Structures, Processes, and History in the Reconstruction of Peace The Reconstruction of Peace I: African Experiences 5. Peace and Aid: The ‘Programme Mali-Nord’ and the Search for Peace in Northern Mali Henner Papendieck and Barbara Rocksloh-Papendieck 6. Roads to Peace: From Small War to Parasovereign Peace in the North of Mali Georg Klute and Trutz von Trotha 7. Legislation and Decentralisation in Uganda: From Resistance Councils to Elected Local Councils with Guaranteed Representation Dirk Beke 8. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: ‘The Truth will Set You Free’ Willemien du Plessis The Reconstruction of Peace II: Asian Experiences 9. Democracy and Ethnic Conflicts: The Politics of Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution in South Asia Jakob Rösel 10. Law, Violence and Peace Making on the Island of Ambon Keebet von Benda-Beckmann 11. The Search for New Sources of Legitimacy in Indonesia after Suharto John R Bowen Conclusion 12. At the Heart of Legal Anthropology: Analyses of peace processes Marie-Claire Foblets and Barbara Truffin

About the Author

Marie-Claire Foblets is Professor of Law and Anthropology at the Universities of Leuven, Brussels and Antwerp and Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven. Trutz von Trotha is Professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Reviews

Each essay in the collection tends to be learned, detailed, and carefully documented, so it is difficult to do justice to the whole volume in a brief review…a valuable contribution..the authors offer convincing evidence of the importance of legal anthropology in peace-building efforts..
*International Journal on World Peace, Vol XXII, No 1*