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State Building for Peace: a new paradigm for international engagement in post-conflict fragile states?

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  • Alina Rocha Menocal

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This article is intended to analyse two leading approaches that have guided international efforts to promote peace and development in conflict-afflicted fragile states since the 1990s, namely peace building and state building. In a relatively recent development a growing number of donors has sought to bring these two closer together, based upon the perception that the challenges posed by (post-)conflict fragile states need to be addressed through an approach that combines both—‘state-building for peace’, as the undp has put it. The article thus seeks to explore how the processes of building peace are related to the processes of building more resilient, effective and responsive states in (post-)conflict settings. It provides an overview of the evolution of these two concepts and analyses key complementarities between peace building and state building. It also explores the challenges that arise for both on the basis of these complementarities. The article goes on to examine some of the most significant tensions that arise between the two, and what these tensions may imply for the international assistance community. By way of a conclusion the article offers a few key lessons that emerge from the analysis for improved donor policy and practice in state building for peace efforts.

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  • Alina Rocha Menocal, 2011. "State Building for Peace: a new paradigm for international engagement in post-conflict fragile states?," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(10), pages 1715-1736.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:32:y:2011:i:10:p:1715-1736
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2011.610567
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    2. Sosso FEINDOUNO & Michaël GOUJON & Laurent WAGNER, 2016. "Internal Violence Index: a composite and quantitative measure of internal violence and crime in developing countries," Working Papers P151, FERDI.
    3. Stefan Bächtold & Joan Bastide & Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, 2020. "Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(2), pages 359-378, April.

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