Includes bibliographical references and index.

The peace in between / Astri Suhrke -- Violence and the post-conflict state in historical perspective: Spain 1936-1948 / Michael Richards -- Reconstruction and violence post-Bellum American South 1865-77 / Michael Beaton -- Post-war violence in Bosnia and Herzegovinia / Mats Berdal, Gemma Collantes-Celador and Merima Zupcevic Buzadzic -- Revenge and reprisal in Kosovo / Michael J. Boyle -- Political violence in post-civil war Lebanon / Are Knudsen and Nasser Yassin -- From regime change to civil war: violence in post-invasion Iraq / Toby Dodge -- Armed politics in Afghanistan / Antonio Giustozzi -- Warlordism: three biographies from southeastern Afghanistan / Kristian Berg Harpviken -- Violence in post-war Cambodia / Sorpong Peu -- Conflict and violence in post-independence in East Timor / Dionísio Babo-Soares -- Sexual violence: the case of Eastern Congo / Ingrid Samset -- The political economies of violence in post-war Liberia / Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary -- Violence, denial and fear in post-genocide Rwanda / Trine Eide -- The multiple forms of violence in post-War Guatemala / John-Andrew McNeish and Oscar López Rivera -- Reflections on post-war violence and peacebuilding / Mats Berdal.