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This concluding chapter attempts to demonstrate a potentially constructive yet under-theorized link between the scholarship and practice of peacebuilding, on the one hand, and post-colonial deconstructive tools of analysis, on the other. The latter focus on subaltern experiences and on an exposition of power dynamics (the institutional and cultural logic of misrecognition and maldistribution) illuminates two important aspects of peacebuilding: human rights advocacy and conflict transformation. The human rights framework is employed to evaluate and redress areas of injustice. It provides important vocabulary and tools with which to articulate grievances and claims of restorative justice. In tum, the transformation of a conflictual context depends on recognition of the underlying structures of injustice. Such transformative recognition may emerge out of a deconstructive introspection of the dominant ethos and patterns of control. However, for post-colonial modes of analysis and protest to affect a substantive transformation of ethnoreligious national conflict, a constructive process of reimagining the 'nation' needs to take place. This process would require reimagining alternative modes in which religion, ethnicity and conceptions of citizenship may interact with one another within the framework of the nation-state.

Declaring that a tourist Colombia guarantees a post-conflict reconstruction is not a performative act. We must therefore ask ourselves whether perceiving tourism as a tool in the service of peace is more of a myth or a reality. After a brief look at the recovery of Colombian tourism since the beginning of the 2000s, this article aims to observe some of the challenges that have characterised the sector since the signing of peace agreements between the government and the FARC-Ep, such as the rebuilding the country's image, prostitution and narco-tourism, the issue of access to land and resources, the promotion of eco-tourism and "community" tourism, and the role of this industry in the reintegration of demobilised combatants.

Analyses on how the minorities survive in a peace-rebuilding attempt in a post-conflict society have always been interesting. Through an 8-year participant observation in Bosnia, Asst. Prof. Pickering decided to launch this interesting ethnographic-style inquiry. Following Varshney's (2002) suggestion to overthrow the old studies that looked into just political institutions and elites, the author begins a study on grassroots perspectives. She finds that the minorities must solve their daily problems through political choices that favor the moderate or are inclusive towards the minorities. This book adds and reminds us that beyond "normal" attention to policies from large bodies and majorities, there is a lived experience of the minorities that can be gathered and documented in meaningful ways. ; Analyses on how the minorities survive in a peace-rebuilding attempt in a post-conflict society have always been interesting. Through an 8-year participant observation in Bosnia, Asst. Prof. Pickering decided to launch this interesting ethnographic-style inquiry. Following Varshney's (2002) suggestion to overthrow the old studies that looked into just political institutions and elites, the author begins a study on grassroots perspectives. She finds that the minorities must solve their daily problems through political choices that favor the moderate or are inclusive towards the minorities. This book adds and reminds us that beyond "normal" attention to policies from large bodies and majorities, there is a lived experience of the minorities that can be gathered and documented in meaningful ways.