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Early recovery in Post-Conflict Countries
February 17, 2010. On 21 January 2010 CRU published the report Early Recovery in Post-Conflict Countries: A Conceptual Study, by Rolf Maier. In recent years, the term ‘early recovery’ has emerged as one of the main topics in the international debate on post-conflict development. While a broad array of concepts and approaches are present in the international arena, there is currently no consensus on what is meant by ‘early recovery’, both in policy and programmatic terms. To analyze these issues, this study critically discusses, in a first step, the policy strategies and operational frameworks of selected bilateral donors, regional organizations as well as multilateral institutions to disentangle the main background concepts underlying the policy concepts and to inform the reader of the major challenges involved. Read more »
‘How to involve the private sector in peacebuilding processes’
December 20, 2009. This policy brief is based on research projects carried out and/or coordinated by the Clingendael Conflict Research Unit in the course of 2009. It presents a number of policy considerations on how to better involve private sector actors in peacebuilding efforts in fragile and conflict affected environments. Read more »
Report Launch: Economic Provisions in Peace Agreements
December 20, 2009. On 14 December 2009 CRU published the report Economic Provisions in Peace Agreements, by Hugo de Vries with Paul Lange and Leontine Specker. This paper constitutes a follow-up study to the CRU publication Governance Components in Peace Agreements: fundamental elements of state- and peacebuilding? and focuses specifically on the role of economic components of peace agreements. Read more »
Early Economic Recovery in Fragile States: Priority Areas and Operational Challenges
December 14, 2009. On 14 December 2009, CRU published the report Early Economic Recovery in Fragile States: Priority Areas and Operational Challenges, by Hugo de Vries and Leontine Specker. This report is part of a larger research project on early economic recovery which CRU works on with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme’s objective is to support the MFA in identifying a number of economic priority areas as part of the broader Dutch policy on fragile states. Read more »