Paper short abstract:

This paper serves as a position paper for the panel which addresses several aspects of non-state governance in 'no-war-no-peace' situations. The main focus is on three registers of governance: socio-economic formations, political orders and interrelations of internal and external expertise.

Paper long abstract:

This paper is meant to serve as a position paper for the panel which addresses several aspects of governance in 'no-war-no-peace' and unstable post-conflict situations. The main focus is on three registers of governance: socio-economic formations, political orders, and interrelations of internal and external expertise.

The general purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the recent anthropological literature on the issue of governance in each of the three registers under examination as well as to present preliminary ethnographic data from recent fieldtrips to Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. The paper concludes by addressing the basic issues of redistribution, citizenship, and development in contexts of non-state governance.