World Development Report 2011—Not a Cookbook
Many leaders and practitioners familiar with the challenges of delivering in fragile and conflict-affected states are urging us to come up with practical suggestions for them. We in the WDR Team feel we have to be careful not try and develop some set of 'conflict recipes', though: this would mean falling into the trap that characterizes a lot of institutional development work by external parties (i.e. that it is based on prescriptive models and is insufficiently adapted to real-life situations of fragility and conflict). Rather than a cookbook, then, we are shooting for an approach that shares insights and experiences from all types of situations, and points to those that have worked well and could prove useful elsewhere.
For a summary of the purpose and content of the upcoming World Development Report 2011, please take a look at my video:
WDR 2011 - Not a Cookbook from World Bank on Vimeo.
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To learn about violence go to where violence is on the move
If there is a place to learn about the roots of violence, that has to be Venezuela where over just a couple of decades the homicide rate for each 100.000 citizens went up from less than 10 to over 50. Or is Venezuela not considered a sufficient fragile and conflict affected nation?
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