Securing Peace: State-building and Economic Development in Post-conflict Countries

This book studies the processes which lead to explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for a more integrated policy approach which can gradually repair trust in public institutions as it addresses the vulnerabilities and grievances that helped start the process. Usually, such societies do not have the luxury of meeting the goals of security, reconciliation and development in a measured or sequenced manner: to avoid an immediate return to violence they must begin the recovery process on all

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Impact of Armed Civil Conflict on Household Welfare and Policy Responses; Chapter 3: Development and Conflict: Theoretical and Empirical Linkages; Chapter 4: Peace-Building and the Social Contract; Chapter 5: State-Building for Peace-Building: What Theory and Whose Role?; Chapter 6: Post-Conflict Recovery: Resource Mobilization and Reconstruction; Chapter 7: Post-Conflict Recovery: Aid Effectiveness and Permanent Peace

Chapter 8: Post-Conflict Recovery: Lessons from the Marshall Plan for the 21st Century Index