Most recent works about the efforts of local communities caught up
in a civil war have focused on their efforts to remain places of
security and safety from the violence that surrounds them-neutral
peace communities or zones. This book, in contrast, focuses on
local peace communities facing new challenges and opportunities
once a peace agreement has been signed at the national level, such
as those in South Africa, the Philippines, Burundi, East Timor,
Sierra Leone, and the present peace process in Colombia between the
FARC and the Colombian Government. The communities' task is to make
a stable and durable peace in the aftermath of a violent civil war
and a deal on which local people have usually had little or no
influence. Such agreements seek to involve them in both short and
longer term peace-building, and expect local communities to cope
with problems of armed ex-combatants, IDPs and refugees, law and
order in the absence of much state presence, high unemployment and
the need for widespread and massive reconstruction of physical
infrastructure damaged or destroyed during the war. How local
communities have coped with the demands of "peace" is thus the
theme that runs through each of these individual chapters, written
by authors with direct experience of grassroots communities
struggling with such "problems of peace."
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