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