ABSTRACT
It is impossible to address what may be new in post-conflict governance reconstruction without addressing the impacts of globalization in the 1990s and 2000s. Globalization has enhanced economic and political interdependence and, at the same time, has afforded opportunities for some countries and communities to advance while leaving others behind. The resulting marginalization and/or conscious social exclusion exacerbate the potential for conflict, on economic, political, and/or social grounds (see Lake and Rothchild 1996; Gissinger and Gleditch 1999). Social tension leading to conflict inside nation states is not new, though the consequences and potential for conflict escalation through external intervention have increased through globalization. This chapter considers the influence of information technology (IT) and migration in societies emerging from or vulnerable to conflict.
