ABSTRACT
This chapter looks into the concepts and ideas which shape the approach for peace-building. I suggest that the aid agencies’ approach is based on a set of assumptions which are constitutive of the way it is framed. In particular, I look into the way conflict is conceived of, the ideas for its transformation into a nonviolent form, the form of power which should be evoked in order to make change happen and finally the notion of peace which the approach attempts to bring to the Ferghana Valley.
