The Dynamics of Conflict, Development Assistance and Peace-Building : Sri Lanka 2000-05
Significant transformations in the socio-political and economic landscape of Sri Lanka in recent years encouraged five development partners-World Bank, Asia Foundation, and the governments of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Sweden to collaborate on a conflict assessment in 2005. This reflects a growing trend in the development partner community of combining efforts, pooling resources, and taking advantage of comparative strengths to engage in conflict analysis exercises. The multi-donor conflict assessment revisits the underlying structures of conflict, identified in the previous conflict assessment, and explores the current dynamics of conflict factors with a particular focus on the peace process and international engagement. This note presents key findings of the assessment, in particular, the approaches supported by development partners in Sri Lanka. While this is drawn solely from the Sri Lanka experience, it is likely to have a broad relevance to many such countries.
Summary: | Significant transformations in the
socio-political and economic landscape of Sri Lanka in
recent years encouraged five development partners-World
Bank, Asia Foundation, and the governments of the United
Kingdom, Netherlands and Sweden to collaborate on a conflict
assessment in 2005. This reflects a growing trend in the
development partner community of combining efforts, pooling
resources, and taking advantage of comparative strengths to
engage in conflict analysis exercises. The multi-donor
conflict assessment revisits the underlying structures of
conflict, identified in the previous conflict assessment,
and explores the current dynamics of conflict factors with a
particular focus on the peace process and international
engagement. This note presents key findings of the
assessment, in particular, the approaches supported by
development partners in Sri Lanka. While this is drawn
solely from the Sri Lanka experience, it is likely to have a
broad relevance to many such countries. |
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