The study's most significant finding was the pivotal role local actors and institutions played in preventing and managing conflict. While national agencies provided important policy guidelines, the success...
In exploring potential applications of demand-driven, community-led approaches to livelihood support in post-war contexts, the study is based on the premise that demand-driven methods may be uniquely suited...
This survey identifies German-language theoretical frameworks, concepts and findings in the study of conflict. It follows a very broad approach with regard to phases, levels, causes of conflict and overlap...
This paper draws on four initiatives. The first is a collaborative effort between the Bank and the Permanent Secretariat for Economic and Social Reforms of the Government of Burundi on the Poverty Reduction...
This paper draws on four initiatives. The first is a collaborative effort between the Bank and the Permanent Secretariat for Economic and Social Reforms of the Government of Burundi on the Poverty Reduction...
In this paper, the authors outline an attempt to use local newspaper monitoring to measure the levels, and impacts of violent conflict from 2001-2003 in two Indonesian provinces (East Java and NTT), and...
This paper draws on the experience of international companies as a guide to future policy-making. What factors have guided investment decisions in post-conflict countries? How do different companies in...
This paper summarizes the roots and status of the conflict in Mindanao, a large island with a current population of about 18 million -the second oldest internal conflict in the world- briefly examines...
This working paper presents the findings and recommendations of a review undertaken to identify how gender is addressed in various conflict, and post-conflict situations in the Philippines, with a focus...
This paper analyzes the linkages between drugs and development in Afghanistan. It argues that the opium economy-including its nexus with insecurity, warlords, state weakness, and poor governance-constitutes...
This independent review assesses the performance of seventeen Post-Conflict Fund (PCF) grants relating to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and refugees. These seventeen PCF grants adopt a wide variety...
Over the last decade, donors have attributed increasing importance to providing timely and substantive support to post-conflict recovery and peace building. A large part of this assistance is mobilized...
Countries emerging from war or prolonged periods of civil conflict face a bitter paradox: They urgently need basic infrastructure services, but they lack the adequate public revenues, government capacity...
It has been suggested that large youth cohorts, so-called 'youth bulges', make countries more unstable in general, and thus more susceptible to armed conflict. In the present study this notion is put to...
This paper aims to draw lessons from the involvement of the Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) in the reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and stipulates certain building...
This social assessment study of Sierra Leone seeks to analyze, and evaluate how collective action functions in rural communities, recovering from the war in the country. The objective is to better understand...
Conflict is a normal feature in any society, and can surface for a number of reasons, but it can have creative or destructive consequences. Failure to manage conflict, and prevent it from turning violent...
This review analyzes experience with the Community Empowerment Project (CEP) credit component, and draws a number of lessons and general principles. Credit contributed to a revival of rural economic activities...
The World Bank's conflict agenda supports financing landmine clearance to make available land and infrastructure that are required for a development activity agreed with a borrower. In February 1997, the...
A recent trend in post-Cold War international relations research reveals a new-found interest in intrastate conflict, which occurs more frequently than interstate war. Scholars studying intrastate conflict...