Rebuilding after Emergency: Revamping Agricultural Research in Sierra Leone after Civil War
Title | Rebuilding after Emergency: Revamping Agricultural Research in Sierra Leone after Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Sindu Workneh, Edward Rhodes, and John Sutherland |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 69 |
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Genre | Social Science |
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Rebuilding After Emergency
Title | Rebuilding After Emergency PDF eBook |
Author | Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere |
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Pages | 59 |
Release | 2009 |
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Validation of the World Food Programmes Food Consumption Score and Alternative Indicators of Household Food Security
Title | Validation of the World Food Programmes Food Consumption Score and Alternative Indicators of Household Food Security PDF eBook |
Author | Doris Wiesmann, Lucy Bassett, Todd Benson, and John Hoddinott |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 104 |
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Genre | Social Science |
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International Statebuilding in West Africa
Title | International Statebuilding in West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Abu Bakarr Bah |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2024-08-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0253070651 |
At the turn of the twenty-first century, manipulation of the democratic process coupled with preexisting political and economic grievances led to years-long civil wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire. During and after these conflicts, international peacekeeping efforts and humanitarian intervention became the dominant paths for restoring stability by rebuilding the state. Using these three countries as case studies, this manuscript sheds light on internationally driven state building in war-torn West African nations, the problematic nature of the postcolonial state, and the difficulties of securing its people's wellbeing. Connecting peace and conflict, democracy, and international development studies, Bah and Emmanuel argue that there is a clear nexus between the concepts and practices of peace building and statebuilding; that peace building and statebuilding are not domestic matters alone but also matters of global intervention; and that civil wars can be viewed as opportunities for state building through creative postwar partnerships and organization. This study goes beyond the familiar concepts of failed states, R2P, peacekeeping, and peace mediation and introduces and enhances the concepts of state decay, new humanitarianism, people-centered liberalism, and institutional design. In doing so, it provides critical lessons that local and international actors can draw on as they try to figure out practical solutions to the political, economic, and social problems that impede the development of peaceful and democratic multiethnic postcolonial states in Africa and beyond. Applying comparative-historical methods and theory to archival materials and expert interviews, International Statebuilding in West Africa seeks to shift the discourse on civil wars from their causes and implications to the opportunities they provide to rework failed states—and to shift the discourse on African states from their colonial and neocolonial legacies to their shared moral and security interests with the rest of the world.
The World Bank's Experience with Post-conflict Reconstruction
Title | The World Bank's Experience with Post-conflict Reconstruction PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780821342909 |
Clearing landmines, rehabilitating and integrating of excombatants, rebuilding the infrastructure, coordinating aid sources—these are just some of the issues confronting the Bank in post-conflict reconstruction. The explosion of civil conflicts in the post-Cold War world has tested the World Bank's ability to address unprecedented devastation of human and social capital.This study covers post-conflict reconstruction in nine countries, assessing relevant, recent Bank experience. It also presents case-studies for ongoing and future operations, which analyze: 1. the Bank's main strengths or comparative advantages; 2. its partnership with other donors, international organizations, and NGOs; 3. its role in reconstruction strategy and damage and needs assessment; 4. its role in rebuilding the economy and institutions of governance; 5. its management of resources and processes; 6. implications for monitoring and evaluation.
Consolidating Peace
Title | Consolidating Peace PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Peace-building |
ISBN | 9781905805174 |
Almost ten years on from the official end of wars in Sierra Leone (2002) and Liberia (2003), attention is shifting from post-war peacebuilding to longer-term development. What headway has been made? What challenges lie ahead? And what lessons that can be learnt? This issue of Accord draws on experiences and perspectives from across societies in both countries to explore comparative lessons and examine progress, and argues that peacebuilding policy and practice needs to concentrate more on people: on repairing and building relationships among communities, and between communities and the state; and on developing more participatory politics and society that includes marginalised groups. It suggests that customary practices and mechanisms can help deliver essential services across a range sectors, and that local civil society can facilitate national and international policy engagement with them.
Yes, Africa Can
Title | Yes, Africa Can PDF eBook |
Author | Punam Chuhan-Pole |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2011-06-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821387456 |
Takes an in-depth look at twenty-six economic and social development successes in Sub-Saharan African countries, and addresses how these countries have overcome major developmental challenges.