Systems Thinking Planning for Post-Conflict Reconstructions

This book sets out to understand the nature of §reconstruction planning after armed conflicts. It §attempts to catalogue and discuss the tasks involved §in the process of reconstruction planning. Case §of Bosnia and Herzegovina is examined in detail and §on the whole acts as the leit-motif for the study §and positions reconstruction in the broader context §of sustainable development. The rebuilding of war-§devastated countries and communities can be seen as §a series of non-integrated activities carried out §(and often imposed) by international agencies and §governments, serving political and other agendas. §The result is that calamities of war are often §accompanied by the calamities of reconstruction §without any regard to sustainable development. To §better understand the process of reconstruction the §book presents a qualitative inquiry based on the §Grounded Theory Method. The results is the §development of a conceptual model, called SCOPE §(Sustainable Communities in Post-Conflict §Environments) where a new paradigm on post-conflict §reconstruction emerges and incorporates a number of §approaches via a multidisciplinary and systems §thinking manner.