The World Bank. World Development Report 2011. Conflict, Security, and Development

Report Overview. - the US: Washington, DC, the World Bank, the IBRD, 2010. - 63 p.
The Report looks into the changing nature of violence in the 21st century. Interstate and civil wars characterized violent conflict in the last century; more pronounced today is violence linked to local disputes, political repression, and organized crime. The report underlines the negative impact of persistent conflict on a country’s or a region’s development prospects, and notes that no low income, conflict-affected state has yet achieved a single Millennium Development Goal.The Challenge of Repeated Cycles of Violence
21st-century conflict and violence are a development problem that does not fit the 20th-century mold
Vicious cycles of confl ict: When security, justice, and employment stresses meet weak institutions
Roadmap for Breaking Cycles of Violence at the Country Level
Restoring confi dence and transforming the institutions that provide citizen security, justice, and jobs
Practical policy and program tools for country actors
Reducing the Risks of Violence-Directions for International Policy
Providing specialized assistance for prevention through citizen security, justice, and jobs
Transforming procedures and risk and results management in international agencies
Acting regionally and globally to reduce external stresses on fragile states
Marshaling support from lower-, middle-, and higher-income countries and global and regional institutions, to reflect the changing landscape of international policy and assistance
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