Capacity building
- How can good governance be restored in post-conflict and crisis states?
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Governments are often weak after violent hostilities cease, so post-conflict countries need immediate and substantial assistance in restoring governance as well as economic and political reconstruction. International assistance organisations have become crucial in helping governments increase their capacity to perform essential functions in the early and transitional stages of post-conflict recovery. This paper examines the challenges of restoring effective governance in crisis and post-conflict countries. It explores the functions and roles of governments and the approaches to assistance that have been used by international organisations and bilateral donors.
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How can civil society in fragile states be effectively supported?
- ( M. Dowst / International NGO Training and Research Centre , 2009)
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It is little surprise that policymaker and research focus is now squarely on the issue of fragile states. For one in three of their respective populations are undernourished; the foundations n...
Statebuilding and peace: lessons for the donor community
- ( A.R. Menocal / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2009)
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This paper stresses how donors need to understand the links between peacebuilding and state-building. In this paper, the author provides a brief description of fragile states and writes that m...
- Examining international interventions in post conflict Liberia.
- ( Louise Andersen / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2007)
- This paper examines the collapse of the Liberian political order and the current challenge of reconstituting order. It addresses the ongoing post conflict state building process in Liberia. One of the...
- Early recovery and joint donor assessments
- ( United Nations Development Group , 2008)
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Over the past ten years United Nations’ (UN) peacekeeping operations have largely increased in number and importance. This short discussion note from the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effective...
- Aid effectiveness and state building in conflict situations
- ( S. Jones;K. Kotoglou;T. Brown / IDL Group , 2008)
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The Paris Declaration sets out an overall framework of agreement and structure of mutual accountability between aid-receiving countries and their development partners to give substance to the conse...
- Linking violence and fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia
- ( S.M. Murshed;M.Z. Tadjoeddin / Microcon , 2008)
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It is now widely accepted that the evolution from autocracy towards lasting democracy in developing countries can be associated with increased violence, and even the risk of civil war. This paper e...
- Conserving mountain gorillas in conflict regions
- ( A, Hammill;A. Crawford / International Institute for Sustainable Development , 2008)
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Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats. It can also have a profound effect on the peace and confl...
- Assessing violence in Jamaica
- ( I. Duncan-Waite;M. Woolcock / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester , 2008)
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Drawing on extensive field research in Kingston’s garrison communities, this paper argues that Jamaica generally, and Kingston in particular, experiences high levels of common viole...
- The effectiveness of redistributive transfers and policing in conflict reduction
- ( P. Justino / Microcon , 2008)
- Using data from India, this briefing paper compares the effectiveness of redistributive transfers and policing in reducing conflict. It asks how policymakers can reduce and prevent civil unrest in hig...
- Juridical manipulation to retain a hold on power
- ( D. Matyszak / Institute for Democracy in South Africa , 2008)
- Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU-PF, in the March 2008 elections, lost their majority in parliament, whilst their leader Robert Mugabe went to succeed in a run-off election which was dogged by accusation...
