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"Policing Post Conflict Cities is an engaging and provocative enquiry into the most basic of political challenges - the recontruction of ""order"" and the provision of ""security"" in post conflict urban locales. Here Alice Hills invites us to think way beyond current orthodoxies and to base our theories instead on the fluid and ambigious practices emerging from Bagdad, Basra, Kinshasa, Kigali and others. Policing Post-Conflict Cities will appeal to an audience who values critical scholarship. * Elrena Van Der Spuy, University of Cape Town * Through this magisterial analysis of policing in post-conflict cities, Alice Hills challenges the ""cargo cult"" status of police reform and the uncritical assumptions about democratic policing that are embedded in the liberal peace. * Michael Pugh, University of Bradford *"

'Through this magisterial analysis of policing in post-conflict cities, Alice Hills challenges the 'cargo cult' status of police reform and the uncritical assumptions about democratic policing that are embedded in the liberal peace.' - Michael Pugh, University of Bradford 'Policing Post Conflict Cities is an engaging and provocative enquiry into the most basic of political challenges - the recontruction of 'order' and the provision of 'security' in post conflict urban locales. Here Alice Hills invites us to think way beyond current orthodoxies and to base our theories instead on the fluid and ambigious practices emerging from Bagdad, Basra, Kinshasa, Kigali and others. Policing Post-Conflict Cities will appeal to an audience who values critical scholarship.' - Elrena Van Der Spuy, University of Cape Town

This book [analyzing the consequences and amelioration] of the several kinds of 'internal displacement' is a welcome addition to the literature. There are instructive similarities, but also important differences, among forced resettlement as a result of development projects, armed conflict, or natural disasters. [It is a sad commentary on our times that development studies is having to extend its scope to the restoration of governance capabilities, economic productivity and social relationships, rather than just figuring out how to advance each of these dimensions [of national existence] to more satisfactory levels.] Muggah brings insightful social science analysis to this subject, plus an incisive historical perspective. His choice of Sri Lanka as a case study is [, sadly for that country,] very apt, since this country offers relevant examples of all three kinds of internal displacement for us to learn from. - Norman Uphoff, Cornell University Can one author concomitantly wield the analytical lenses of several disciplines? This insightful study brilliantly conquers this daunting methodological challenge. Muggah's major book is the sharpest theoretical, political, and sociological analysis of the conundrum of displacements and resettlement processes caused by development, conflicts, and natural disasters, that are integral not only to Sri Lanka's social fabric but epitomize the status of our today's World at large - Michael M. Cernea, George Washington University

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Alice Hills is professor of conflict and security at the University of Leeds, where her specialist area is security governance in fragile states. Her research focuses on why police evolve as they do, and what explains the interactions between public police, governments, and militaries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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