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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 »