Lessons from Liberia’s Success: Thoughts on Leadership, the Process of Peace, Security, and Justice
The ending in 2003 of the 14-year civil war in Liberia and the subsequent progress made there is a 21st-century success story not only for Liberians, but also for Africa, the United Nations (UN), the United States, and many others. Over 250,000 people lost their lives during this struggle, with great suffering endured elsewhere in West Africa as well.
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09 июля 2010
State Fragility as a Wicked Problem
How we conceive of the condition of state fragility is critical to our ability to fashion effective strategies in response. To date, our efforts to define, categorize, measure, interpret, and
predict state fragility have been at best partial successes.
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09 июля 2010
Forging a U.S. Policy Toward Fragile States
Except in high profile crisis situations, Washington rarely attempts to develop an integrated, governmentwide strategy to prevent conflict and state failure, in which the National Security Council sets overall objectives and figures out how to bring relevant tools of influence to bear in the service of unified country strategies.
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09 июля 2010
