Many post-conflict states raise more money in taxes than they receive in international aid, but domestic revenue mobilization is often overlooked as a peacebuilding tool.
Tag: fragile states
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While alarms bells warn of the real and imagined threats presented by fragile cities, surprisingly little is known about them.
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For the post-2015 development agenda to succeed, it has to reflect the peacebuilding and statebuilding goals of the New Deal.
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How to reach Syria’s opposition-held areas has caused sharp debate within humanitarian organizations.
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Incidents of piracy are down but at unsustainable costs while pirates are getting more desperate and more violent.
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Mr. Muggah discusses the global shift in the nature of armed conflict and impacts on personal security and fragile states.
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A new OECD report examines how the international understanding of fragile states is shifting and what that means for future policy.
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More than a failure of Kabila and his under-resourced military, the fall of Goma was the culmination of misguided international military policies.
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A new book by Kimberly Marten includes case studies that show possible ways to deal with these nasty characters.
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Personal security is an aspect of everyone’s life, and there is ample evidence that insecurity has negative implications for development.