Governance and crisis states
- The challenges of restoring governance in crisis and post-conflict countries
- This book examines the tasks and challenges of restoring effective governance in crisis and post-conflict countries. It explores the types of functions and roles that governments must carry out in conflicted societies and the approaches to assistance that have been used by international organizations and bilateral donors.
Latest Additions
- Libya: where to now?
- ( Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2011)
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What now for Libya with the fall of the authoritarian, centralised ‘one-party’ system? With the Gaddafi regime defeated and dispersed policy analysts and development professionals will ...
- How can conflict-affected fragile states progress? The World Development Report 2011
- ( World Development Report, World Bank , 2011)
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Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, and no low-income fragile or conflict-affected country has yet to achieve a single Millenni...
- How can the security sector in Honduras be best supported?
- ( J. Schünemann (ed) / Fride , 2010)
- The citizens of Honduras have been plagued with insecurity since the 2009 coup d’état which brought to the fore a sustained crisis of security and legitimacy making the political equ...
- Ensuring effective and transparent development in Pakistan
- ( N. Birdsall;W. Elhai / Center for Global Development, USA , 2011)
- The USA would like to see a Pakistan that is: more capable and prosperous; less fractious; and able to fulfill three basic functions: ensure internal security, meet the basic needs of its citizens, an...
Simplicity and transparency key to state-building in Afghanistan
- ( S. Parkinson / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2010)
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This study describes a number of national-level policymaking processes in Afghanistan, applying a cross-case analysis of five different case studies. The five cases highlight the complicated and di...
What does the future hold for Liberia?
- ( L. Gberie / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa , 2010)
- Liberia holds its second post-war presidential and legislative elections in October 2011. The first, held in 2005 was the first free and fair elections in the country’s long history and it usher...
- The State’s legitimacy in fragile situations - unpacking complexity
- ( S. Massing (ed) / OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series , 2010)
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- Tackling non-conflict armed violence requires new strategies
- ( J. Collodi;F. M'Cormack / Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information , 2010)
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Significant unrest that falls outside the scope of civil conflict or rebel insurgency is becoming more common. Predictive research directs us to rethink the scale and impact of what are currently c...
- Fragility indices: reviewing their conceptual premises, methodological approach and possible uses
- ( J.F. Mata;S. Ziaja;J. Nahem (ed) / United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
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In light of the growing recognition and understanding of the close linkages between governance and fragility, this Users’ Guide presents a comparative analysis of cross-country fragility indi...
"State of fragility."
- ( A. Gauthier;M. Moita / Fride , 2010)
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The end of the dictatorship was supposed to promise freedom, respect of human rights, economic growth and better living conditions for Haitians. But during the past two decades, struggles for power...
