1. Local government and decentralisation in post-conflict contexts
2. Taking stock of Rwanda’s decentralisation: changing local governance in a post-conflict environment
3. Beneath the veneer: decentralisation and post-conflict reconstruction in Rwanda
4. The role of decentralisation in post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone
5. Mediating the margins: the role of brokers and the Eastern Provincial Council in Sri Lanka’s post-war transition
6. Decentralisation, security consolidation and territorial peacebuilding: is Colombia about to close the loop?
7. Educational decentralisation in post-conflict societies: approaches and constraints
8. Local government dissolution in Karachi: chasm or catalyst?
9. Decentralisation as a post-conflict state-building strategy in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and Rwanda
10. Decentralisation and local governance in post-conflict contexts: a practitioner’s perspective