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.
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
