Vignette: Transitional Justice in Afghanistan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Prologue : The urgency of reality 9
4. 1. Struggling in the world of nationstates 15
5. 2. Nation and state 25
6. Vignette: From commanders to governors in South Sudan 43
7. 3. Fragility: A donor’s concept but not far from reality 45
8. Vignette: Blueprints, checklists and formats: Disarmament in the DRC 56
9. 4. Nation-building: Sovereignty and citizenship 59
10. Vignette: Protecting the role of local organizations in Afghanistan 71
11. 5. Nation-building and state-building and the challenge of fragility 73
12. Vignette: Transitional Justice in Afghanistan 92
13. 6. Peacemaking as the preliminary step towards nation-building and statebuilding 93
14. Vignette: An outspoken and inclusive mediator in Colombia 100
15. 7. The Scylla and Charybdis of nationbuilding 101
16. Vignette: NGOs blamed as allies of opposition in Burundi 107
17. 8. Nation-building: Identity and identification, process and content 109
18. Vignette: Imagination of reality in Gaza 123
19. 9. National identity: A model and its content 125
20. Case: Bangsamoro nation 148
21. 10. A program for nation-building in fragile states 153
22. Vignette: Legitimacy for development organizations in Uruzgan 178
23. Case: Rwanda: Nation-building in mildly authoritarian regimes 180
24. Epilogue: The challenges of fragility – and the beginning of an answer 183
25. Acknowledgements 191
26. Bibliography 193
27. Index 199