ABSTRACT
The central themes of this book have been the identification of the false dichotomy of war and peace, the social construction of “post-conflict” spaces as embodiments of power relations, and the ways in which these spaces both reflect and reproduce hegemonic power relations. Furthermore, the chapters have highlighted the ways in which everyday practices of power and violence in what are deemed spaces of peace, reconstruction, and “post-conflict” are very much related to practices of war. Each of the chapters has made a particular contribution to illuminating these themes, developing our understanding of them, and offering ideas for further research. In this brief conclusion, we do not re-hash these themes, as they were presented in the introduction. Instead, some of the insights generated by the chapters are identified and briefly discussed before, in an inference designed to provoke further avenues of research, the moral and political imperatives of the “re” in post-war reconstruction are briefly explored.
