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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9789048532124

Content: Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies like these, René Grotenhuis shows in this book, ignore the question of what makes people belong to a nation-state, arguing that issues of identity, culture, and religion are crucial to creating the sense of belonging and social cohesion that a stable nation-state requires.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Table of contents -- , Prologue : The urgency of reality -- , 1. Struggling in the world of nationstates -- , 2. Nation and state -- , Vignette: From commanders to governors in South Sudan -- , 3. Fragility: A donor’s concept but not far from reality -- , Vignette: Blueprints, checklists and formats: Disarmament in the DRC -- , 4. Nation-building: Sovereignty and citizenship -- , Vignette: Protecting the role of local organizations in Afghanistan -- , 5. Nation-building and state-building and the challenge of fragility -- , Vignette: Transitional Justice in Afghanistan -- , 6. Peacemaking as the preliminary step towards nation-building and statebuilding -- , Vignette: An outspoken and inclusive mediator in Colombia -- , 7. The Scylla and Charybdis of nationbuilding -- , Vignette: NGOs blamed as allies of opposition in Burundi -- , 8. Nation-building: Identity and identification, process and content -- , Vignette: Imagination of reality in Gaza -- , 9. National identity: A model and its content -- , Case: Bangsamoro nation -- , 10. A program for nation-building in fragile states -- , Vignette: Legitimacy for development organizations in Uruzgan -- , Case: Rwanda: Nation-building in mildly authoritarian regimes -- , Epilogue: The challenges of fragility – and the beginning of an answer -- , Acknowledgements -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9789048532124

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9789048532124