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Good Aid in Hard Places

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The National Solidarity Programme

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The Yemen Social Fund for Development

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‘Embedded’ Assistance

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  • Peacebuilding
  • Conflict
  • Foreign aid
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Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform

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  • Peacebuilding
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  • Foreign aid
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Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in Nicaragua

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  • Peacebuilding
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Education from the Bottom Up

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The World Bank’s Health Projects in Timor-Leste

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Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at www.tandfebooks.com and offered as a free PDF download from Taylor & Francis Group and selected open access locations. Development assistance...

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Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

  • Horizontal inequality
  • Legal empowerment
  • Peacebuilding
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Working together on the puzzle of peace: The role of partnerships
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by Patricia Justino May 2023

When the theme for the first WIDER Development Conference of 2022—peace, security, and conflict—was chosen some years ago, no one could have predicted...

  • Partnerships for Development
  • Peacebuilding
  • SDG17
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Trust the hand that protects you—Does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments’ legitimacy?

Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has stepped in to support post-conflict states in rebuilding state capacity, sometimes replacing governments in providing public goods. Most...

  • State legitimacy
  • Post-conflict
  • Trust
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International development assistance and the inclusivity paradox in fragile and conflict-affected states

The principle of inclusive development lies at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular Goal 16, with its focus on inclusive societies backed by inclusive institutions. Yet despite its ubiquity across the SDGs...

  • SDGs
  • Inclusion
  • Peacebuilding
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States of disorder

Why is the recent track record of state-building so poor? Over the past decade, international interventions in Afghanistan, Somalia, Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have not resulted in...

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  • Governance
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The paths and legacies of civil war
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by Anastasia Shesterinina March 2021

Civil wars leave enduring legacies for social networks , political identities , preferences , and attitudes . Their impacts on public perceptions of...

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  • Peacebuilding
  • Institutions
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Foreign aid and peacebuilding

Foreign aid is a core component of peacebuilding and among the largest external financial flows to fragile states and conflict-affected areas. Nevertheless, troubling critiques have been raised about its overall impact and effectiveness. Some of the...

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  • Aid effectiveness
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