Crises present opportunities for societies to remake themselves beyond emergency relief and reconstruction, and creative partnerships can emerge across the boundaries of conflict. This is essential reading for both peace makers and development practitioners alike.

Laurence R. Simon, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Philip Cooper and Claudia Maria Vargas reframe healing from the societal devastation caused by armed conflict as the recover phase of disaster management, and they illuminate a path of hope, showing how the recovery process can re-create societies more resilient and sustainable than they were when the tragedy of armed human conflict befell them.

Lloyd Burton, University of Colorado, Denver

Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions provides a thoughtful, in-depth analysis of the problems facing countries emerging from civil wars, genocide and traumatic national upheavals. Casting aside outmoded models of war recovery, the book applies new concepts of human security, environmental protection, and social and economic development to countries coming out of conflict. It is a must for policymakers and practitioners focused on demobilization, the reintegration of displaced populations, the healing of communities, and the rebuilding of nations.

Roberta Cohen, codirector of The Brookings Institution; University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement

Reference to German and Japanese reconstruction after WWII is useful...

Choice Reviews

This is a bold and urgently needed global survey of the environmental costs of mass violence, with persuasive proposals for healing societies plagued by forced population displacement and mass trauma. It is an innovative guide to new strategies for international development in extremely unsettled conditions.

Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan