Contents: Foreword; Part 1 Conceptualising NGO Roles in Peacebuilding: Expanding involvement of NGOs in emerging global governance, Chadwick F. Alger; The dilemmas of subcontracting the liberal peace, Oliver P. Richmond; Up to no good? recent critics and critiques of NGOs, Kim D. Reiman; Politics beyond the State: globalization, migration and the challenge of non-state actors, Fiona Adamson. Part 2 NGOs in Peacemaking: Building peace Norwegian style: studies in track I½ diplomacy, Ann Kelleher and James Larry Taulbee; Voices from the parallel table: the role of Civil sectors in the Guatemalan peace process, Susan Bargeman; Practicing peace: the role of NGOs in assisting 'Zones of Peace' in Colombia, Catalina Rojas; NGO dilemmas in the post-war Iraq: from stabilization to nation-building, Mahmood Monshipouri; A necessary collaboration: NGOs, peacekeepers and credible military force - the cases of Sierra Leone and East Timor, Michael Gordon Jackson. Part 3 NGOs in Peacebuilding: When civil society promotion fails state-building: the inevitable fault-lines in post-conflict reconstruction, Julie Mertus and Tazreena Sajjad; Private military companies in peace building, Marek Pavka; Promoting NGOs as agents of social stabilisation: trauma management and crime prevention initiatives in the Southern African region, Wole Olaleye and David Backer; A rights-based approach to natural resources management: roles and responsibilities of IGOs, States and NGOs, Clark Efaw and Avtar Kaul; The challenges of an NGO in Post-Communist Europe: the Soros health education program, Susan Shapiro; Community peacebuilding in Somalia - comparative advantages in NGO peacebuilding - the example of the Life and Peace Institute's approach in Somalia (1990-2003), Thania Paffenholz; The role of NGOs in institution-building in Rwanda, Joanna Fisher; Orangi pilot project: an NGO helping to build community, Stephen Barmazel. Part 4 NGOs and Norm Development and Monitoring: Transnational activism.