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Development Outreach

October 2009: Fragility and Conflict

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One billion people live in countries where conflict has devastated health, education, economic systems, and lives. Most of these countries are poor; indeed, poverty is often cited as both a cause of civil conflict, and an outcome of it. People living in conflict zones and fragile states need humanitarian aid and protection. But too often, international aid produces only short-term gains. Development practitioners have concluded that longer-term success hinges on helping governments of fragile states build the capacity to provide critical services and govern effectively. But how can this be done effectively, especially amid conflict that rages on, or is barely contained?

Read about the September 30, 2009 launch of Development Outreach and see the video of this event.

Development Outreach is a flagship magazine in the field of global knowledge for development which reflects the learning programs of the World Bank and presents a range of viewpoints by renowned authors and specialists worldwide.

Letter from the Editor

Christopher Neal

GUEST EDITORIAL Drawing on Experience: Transforming Fragile States into Effective Ones

Alastair McKechnie
The international community is still learning how best to contribute towards overcoming the impact of violence, destruction and decreased state capacity.

Building Capacity to Move Past Conflict and Fragility: An agenda for action

Sanjay Pradhan
Capacity building should be an integral part of a country’s national development plan, not an add-on. WBI’s new strategy on fragile states.

A Worldwide Pact for Security and Accountability in Fragile “Bottom Billion” States

Paul Collier
If security and accountability are critical public goods for development, and if the countries of the bottom billion are structurally unable to supply them internally, then some form of international supply is necessary.

Placing Security and Rule of Law on the Development Agenda

Mark L. Schneider
The International Crisis Group has recognized the need for simultaneity rather than sequencing in security and development to contribute to conflict prevention, end conflict where it exists, and help to ensure the success of post conflict reconstruction and stabilization.

Disarm, Demobilize and Reintegrate: Transforming combatants into citizens to consolidate peace

Maria Correia
The Multi-Country Mobilization and Reintegration Program, designed to provide a framework for activities in Africa’s Great Lakes region, closed down after seven years leaving behind a legacy of success.

Timor Leste Ten Years After: What have we learned?

EmIlia Pires
The development challenge in post-conflict East Timor is making the transition from a military environment focused on conflict to a civilian administration facing complexity and uncertainty.

No Development without Peace

Gary Milante and Phil Oxhorn
Focuses on what were identified as three pivotal components of post-conflict development: democracy and the provision of public goods, power-sharing for sustainable peace, and macroeconomic policy.

From Civil War to Special Economic Zones: Djibouti Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority

An interview with Anand Cyparsade by Robert Krech
Djibouti is proving to be a successful free zone project in a difficult environment. Because of the cooperation of the Government of Djibouti.

Bottom-Up State Building: Preventing violence at the community level

Erik Alda and Alys M. Willman
Haiti and Kenya offer two examples of the global distribution and pattern of violence that have been changing from the large-scale civil wars to the increasing emergence of common violence, particularly in urban areas.

Sexual Violence Extends Beyond Conflict

Karin Wachter
To address sexual violence only during humanitarian emergencies is to ignore the endemic nature of violence against women on a global scale and its adverse impact on the development of a country.

Parliaments as Peacebuilders

Rasheed Draman
The potential role of parliaments in fragile states is often not realized due to limited resources and capacity. Yet, strengthening parliaments is critical to both avoid conflict and recover from it.

Building a Viable State: A delicate balance

Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai
Part of DILEMMAS OF STATE BUILDING IN AFGHANISTAN: Three Views Afghanistan presents complex and, in some respects, unique development challenges. These are sketched out from different perspectives in the following three articles.

An Accountable State with a Strong Civil Society

Seema Ghani
Part of DILEMMAS OF STATE BUILDING IN AFGHANISTAN: Three Views Afghanistan presents complex and, in some respects, unique development challenges. These are sketched out from different perspectives in the following three articles.

How the International Community Can Support State Building

William Byrd
Part of DILEMMAS OF STATE BUILDING IN AFGHANISTAN: Three Views Afghanistan presents complex and, in some respects, unique development challenges. These are sketched out from different perspectives in the following three articles.

A UN Architecture to Build Peace in Post-Conflict Situations

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo
The UN Peacebuilding Commission recent undertook a review process and is now focusing on a new strategy that highlights the need to strengthen the link between security and development.

Evaluating Community-Driven Reconstruction: Lessons from post-conflict Liberia

James Fearon
Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein
This is the account of an evaluation launched by the International Rescue Committee to ascertain the effectiveness of community-driven reconstruction programs in Liberia.

A Way to Effective Service Delivery in Fragile States: Public-Private Partnerships

Anoop Swaminath
Success and effectiveness in service delivery can establish the legitimacy of a fragile state’s government, and thereby reduce its fragility. Public-private partnerships offer a viable approach to achieving this goal.



           

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