Horizontal Inequalities and Post-Conflict Development

This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan, and four thematic studies on macro-economic policies, privatisation, PRSP's, and employment generation.

ARNIM LANGER is Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Centrr for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath and Research Associate at the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, UK. He has published extensively on the relationship between horizontal inequalities and violent conflict, the persistence of group inequalities and on issues of post-conflict reconstruction.

FRANCES STEWART is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UK. Her publications include UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human Face, War and Underdevelopment and Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies.

RAJESH VENUGOPAL is Altajir Lecturer in Post-War Recovery Studies at the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) of the University of York, UK. He teaches and researches on the politics of development, ethnic conflict and reconstruction, and the politics of South Asia.