Year: 2008
Type: book
Abstract: Despite the apparent decline in the global incidence of major armed conflict, there\nremain many countries in conflict and many others that are struggling with the legacy\nof recent violence. The majority of these countries are among the poorer and less\ndeveloped ones. Increasing attention within the international community is therefore\nbeing paid to the inter-connections between sustainable peace-building and socioeconomic\ndevelopment within a “post-conflict” environment.\nCountries that are in a post-conflict stage of development differ in many important\nrespects – in their economic state and potential, their political system, their\nbureaucratic capacities and the state of security in the country itself. All these\nvariations are relevant to the appropriate design of post-conflict policies.\nConsequently, it may be helpful to develop a typology of situations confronted by\npost-conflict policy-makers, rather than expecting a one-size-fits-all approach to\nwork. This paper develops such a typology.\nFor simplicity and because our focus is on economic recovery, we concentrate on\nthree economic aspects to form our typology – the state of economic development;\nthe presence of high-value natural resources; and the existence of sharp HIs. We\nchoose these three because they influence the probability of conflict recurrence and\nthe nature of economic policies needed to achieve economic recovery.\nWe also discuss four other important differences in enabling conditions – the state of\nsecurity, the commitments of the international community to the country, state\ncapacity and the inclusivity of governments. These enabling conditions are of critical\nimportance in determining what policies are possible and their likely effectiveness.\nWe conclude by illustrating how actual conflict and post-conflict countries fit into the\ntypology.
Authors: Graham K. Brown, Arnim Langer, Frances Stewart
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1905186854