All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and
1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after
internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization.
Transforming war-shattered states into market democracies is
basically sound, but pushing this process too quickly can have
damaging and destabilizing effects. The process of liberalization
is inherently tumultuous, and can undermine the prospects for
stable peace. A more sensible approach to post-conflict
peacebuilding would seek, first, to establish a system of domestic
institutions that are capable of managing the destabilizing effects
of democratization and marketization within peaceful bounds and
only then phase in political and economic reforms slowly, as
conditions warrant. Peacebuilders should establish the foundations
of effective governmental institutions prior to launching wholesale
liberalization programs. Avoiding the problems that marred many
peacebuilding operations in the 1990s will require longer-lasting
and, ultimately, more intrusive forms of intervention in the
domestic affairs of these states. This book was first published in
2004.
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