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The best books in the world (of government and international organisations)
Security consultant You don’t see many Zapolets these days, except outside the Vatican. The Swiss Guards are the last vestige of a mercenary tradition Thomas More satirised in Utopia under this name as...
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The other g7
Click on the image to see the Dili Declaration This post is contributed by Rory Clarke, editor of the OECD Observer With the G20 ending with a whimper more than a bang last weekend, it seems a good...
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Afghanistan at the crossroads
Click on the image to go to the Kabul Conference website As the Kabul International Conference on Afghanistan brings together representatives from over 70 partner countries, Sarah Cramer and Asbjorn...
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Mapping paths out of fragility and conflict
Click to see the report Following on Monday’s presentation of the World Development Report, Stephan Massing of the OECD’s International Network on Conflict and Fragility looks at the role of external...
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Contracting out in fragile states
Click to see the Handbook Following on Monday’s presentation of the World Development Report, this post is from Richard Batley emeritus professor and Claire Mcloughlin a research fellow in the...
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Does peacebuilding bring peace?
How much do you think it would cost to achieve the Millennium Development Goals? Among other things, that would mean cutting extreme poverty by half in 2015 compared with 1990, achieving universal...
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Goodbye conflict, welcome development?
Today’s post is contributed by Donata Garrasi of the OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate and Co-ordinator of the International Dialogue for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Have the populations...
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Against the Odds : Talking Your Way Out of Conflict and Fragility?
Today’s post from Erwin van Veen of the OECD-DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility is the first of several we’ll publishing in connection with the Fourth High-level Forum on Aid...
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From Guns to Ploughshares: Reducing armed violence
Today’s post is from Sarah Cramer and Erwin van Veen of the International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) Film fans may be aware that Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond has the highest body count of...
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Should aid money go to peacekeeping?
Pay them from aid money? Today’s post is from Brenda Killen, Head of OECD’s Global Partnerships and Policy Division and Donata Garrassi from the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and...
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Now, build peace
Find out more about the New Deal between fragile states and partners Today’s post is from Donata Garrassi of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding and Brenda Killen, Head of...
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Can the New Deal for Fragile States Live Up To its Promise to Significantly...
Click for Fragile States 2014 report Today’s post is by Cedric de Coning, head of the Peace Operations and Peacebuilding Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and...
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Crowd sourcing models of fragility
Jolanda Profos, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate The OECD’s new report States of Fragility 2015: Meeting Post-2015 Ambitions addresses the substantial challenges of defining – and classifying...
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