Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery

Media type: E-Book

Title: Good Intentions : Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Donor Community and the Challenge of Postconflict Recovery
3 Cambodia
4 El Salvador
5 Mozambique
6 The Palestinian Territories
7 South Africa
8 Bosnia and Herzegovina
9 Beyond Good Intentions: External Assistance and Peace Building
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
The Contributors
Index
About the Book

Contributor: Awartani, Hisham [Contributor]; Ball, Nicole [Contributor]; Barnes, Sam [Contributor]; Boyce, James K. [Contributor]; Bratton, Michael [Contributor]; Brynen, Rex [Contributor]; Foley, Michael [Contributor]; Forman, Shepard [Contributor]; Forman, Shepard [Editor]; Hertić, Zlatko [Contributor]; Landsberg, Chris [Contributor]; Patrick, Steward [Editor]; Patrick, Stewart [Contributor]; Peou, Sorpong [Contributor]; Rosa, Herman [Contributor]; Woodcraft, Clare [Contributor]; Woodward, Susan L. [Contributor]; Yamada, Kenji [Contributor]; Šapčanin, Amela [Contributor]

Published: Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (432 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781685852030

ISBN: 9781685852030

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Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace

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Footnote: In English

Description: This comparative study assesses the causes—and consequences—of failures to fulfill pledges of aid to postconflict societies. In each of six case studies, the coauthors (drawn from both donor states and recipient countries), evaluate multilateral efforts to support sustainable recovery and peacebuilding in societies emerging from protracted violence. They first establish the timing, composition, and objectives of aid pledged by the donor community. They then analyze the conditions that donors placed on their assistance, the mechanisms they created to coordinate it, and donor performance in delivering it. Next, they evaluate the recipient's ability to absorb external assistance and the impact that this aid has had for reconstruction and peacebuilding goals. Finally, they assess the causes, consequences, and lessons of any gaps between pledges and disbursements. What explains shortfalls in aid disbursement? And what do these recent experiences suggest for improving the multilateral design, mobilization, and coordination of assistance to postconflict societies? Good intentions notwithstanding, inadequate preparation, poor coordination, and lack of perseverance can threaten the recovery of vulnerable polities whose collapse would endanger regional peace and security

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