Conflict's path of devastation and chaos has dramatically slowed the ability of wartorn countries to reach the Education for All (EFA) goals adopted in Dakar in April 2000. This paper sketches the situation...
This paper challenges the notion that addressing center-periphery inequality will in itself result in sustainable peace in Aceh. The authors argue that an evaluation of the (potential) impacts of the decentralization...
This collection of papers examines the role and impact of Somalia's remittance system. After an introduction, Chapter II examines how a dynamic private sector, powered by remittances from abroad, has managed...
The study provides an overview of the concept of civil society, its history and understanding in different contexts. It elaborates an analytical framework of civil society functions derived from democracy...
This paper aims to provide a tour d'horizon of common operational initiatives and policy approaches adopted by agencies and institutions involved in the area of rule of law reform in fragile or post-conflict...
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...
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...
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 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...