LIST OF PANELS

The design, elaboration, implementation, and evaluation of public policies is a very complex process. However, all these steps become even more challenging when those policies are oriented towards rebuilding communities, societies, polities, and economies in conflict-affected countries. Armed conflicts aggravate existing public problems and generate new urgent and important matters that once the conflict ends, call for rapid and effective measures in order to promote peacebuilding and prevent the reappearance of violence. Furthermore, transitions from war to peace entail inherent challenges that need to be addressed on a transversal basis along the wide spectrum of public policies.   In this sense, the panel invites junior and senior researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to present a critical reflection regarding questions such as the following: should public policies be distinctive amid post-conflict scenarios and how distinctive should they be?; what are the public policy needs (if any) that enable the formulation of successful post-conflict reconstruction initiatives?. The panel welcomes papers that present case-studies, best practices, and theory-driven propositions that include, but are not limited to, topics concerning security, coexistence, restoration of law and order, governance, employment, economic rehabilitation and development, justice, and reconciliation in post-conflict scenarios around the world.

The design, elaboration, implementation, and evaluation of public policies is a very complex process. However, all these steps become even more challenging when those policies are oriented towards rebuilding communities, societies, polities, and economies in conflict-affected countries. Armed conflicts aggravate existing public problems and generate new urgent and important matters that once the conflict ends, call for rapid and effective measures in order to promote peacebuilding and prevent the reappearance of violence. Furthermore, transitions from war to peace entail inherent challenges that need to be addressed on a transversal basis along the wide spectrum of public policies.   This characterization of post-conflict situations raise two fundamental questions concerning policy making: should public policies be distinctive amid post-conflict scenarios?; and how distinctive should they be? Current literature on public policy do not place much attention on special and differentiated policy needs in countries riven by conflict. The scientific relevance of this panel consists in broadening and multiplying that existing scholarly work by exposing case-studies, best practices, and theory-driven propositions that try to answer those questions and that promote the usage of a different scope of analysis for the development of public policies. In this sense, this panel aims at bringing together junior and senior researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in order to expand the debate and present a critical reflection regarding the public policy needs that enable the formulation of successful post-conflict reconstruction initiatives. The main topics that are expected to be discussed in the papers presented in the panel include, but are not limited to, security, coexistence, restoration of law and order, governance, employment, economic rehabilitation and development, justice, and reconciliation in post-conflict scenarios around the world.