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Searching with a thematic focus on Fragile states, Governance

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    World Development Report 2011 - Conflict, Security and Development

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2011
    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 Millennium Development Goal. Children living in fragile states are twice as likely to be undernourished and three times as likely to be out of school.
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    Reform without ownership? Dilemmas in supporting security and justice sector reform in Honduras

    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 equilibrium very fragile.
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    Shared goals: measuring overall development progress in Pakistan

    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, and maintain its own legitimacy.
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    Means to what end: policymaking and state-building in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2010
    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 difficult relationship between donors and the government, as well as the rather weak relationships between the people and both of these actors.
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    Liberia: the 2011 elections and building peace in the fragile state

    Institute for Security Studies, 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 ushered in Africa’s first elected female president. Since then Liberia, previously wracked by bloody petty wars, has been largely stable, though very fragile.
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    The State’s legitimacy in fragile situations - unpacking complexity

    OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2010
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    Non-conflict armed violence: Rethinking models of conflict and conflict resolution

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    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 considered ‘low-intensity’ patterns of conflict.
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    Users' guide on measuring fragility

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    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 indices. The paper assesses the indices’ conceptual premises, methodological approach and possible uses.
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    Vulnerability and causes of fragility in Haiti

    Fride, 2010
    The end of the dictatorship was supposed to promise freedom, respect of human rights, economic growth and better living conditions for Haitians.
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    Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    This paper seeks to investigate why and when states delegate governance functions to others—and why the other agrees to take on the responsibilities. The author seeks to determine the conditions under which host states and external actors enact these self-enforcing equilibria.

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