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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 paper 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 ad-dressed through an approach that combines both - 'state-building for peace', as the UNDP has put it. The paper 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. The paper 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 com-plementarities. The paper goes on to examine some of the most significant tensions that arise between the two, and what these tensions may imply for the international assis-tance community. By way of a conclusion, the paper 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, 2010. "State-Building For Peace - A New Paradigm For International Engagement In Post-Conflict Fragile States?," EUI-RSCAS Working Papers 34, European University Institute (EUI), Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies (RSCAS).
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    1. Verena Fritz & Alina Rocha Menocal, 2007. "Developmental States in the New Millennium: Concepts and Challenges for a New Aid Agenda," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 25(5), pages 531-552, September.
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