This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of 'quality peace', and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding through a number of case studies.

Preface, Madhav Joshi & Peter Wallensteen 1. Understanding Quality Peace: Introducing the Five Dimensions, Madhav Joshi and Peter Wallensteen PART I: Post-War Security 2. Peace Implementation and Quality Peace, Terence Lyons 3. Same Peace - Different Quality? The Importance of Security Equality for Quality Peace, Louise Olsson PART II: Governance 4. Governance and negotiations: Whose quality standards?, Roger Mac Ginty 5. Approaches to Negotiations in Post-Civil War Settings: The Role of Local Institutions, Jenny Guardado, Leonard Wantchekon, Sarah Weltman PART III: Economic Reconstruction 6. Business on the Frontlines, Viva Ona Bartkus 7. Peace processes, economic recovery and development agencies, Achim Wennmann PART IV: Reconciliation and Transitional Justice 8. Factoring Transitional Justice into the Quality Peace Equation, David Backer 9. The Challenges of Reconciling the Old and the New in Truth and Reconciliation Commission Processes: The Case of Solomon Islands, Karen Brounéus and Holly Guthrey 10. Reconciliation's Contributions to Quality Peace, Alexander Dukalskis, Laura K. Taylor, and John Darby PART V: Civil Society 11. Is civil society needed for quality peace?, Thania Paffenholz 12. Civil Society and Quality Peace: What happened in El Salvador, Richard Jones PART VI: Case Studies 13. Quality of Peace in Cambodia: 20 Years after the Paris Peace Agreement, Kheang Un 14: El Salvador Twenty Years Later: Successful Democratization but Questionable Peace, Dinorah Azpuru 15. Quality Peace Northern Ireland Case Study, Colin Knox 16. Mozambique: A Credible Commitment to Peace, Carrie Manning and Chipo Dendere 17. Conclusion: Developing Quality Peace: Moving Forward, Madhav Joshi and Peter Wallensteen