Breaking the failed-state cycle / Marla C. Haims ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Occasional paper ; OP-204-HLTH/NDRI/A/AF
• TeilnehmendeR: Haims, Marla C.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-204-HLTH/NDRI/A/AF.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (57 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This paper aims to improve the understanding and treatment of failed states by focusing on critical challenges at the intersections between security, economics, and politics and on the guiding goal of empowering local populations.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Understanding failed states -- Policy failures -- Developing an integrated approach -- Reframing the failed-state challenge -- Identifying and meeting critical challenges -- Dismantling the instruments of violence -- Critical challenge 1: Reintegrating excombatants -- Critical challenge 2: Building effective, legitimate state security structures -- Removing incentives for violence -- Critical challenge 3: Fairly and appropriately distributing assistance -- Critical challenge 4: Building an inclusive and representative political system -- Establishing security for economic recovery -- Critical challenge 5: Securing the nation's productive assets -- Critical challenge 6: Providing security for foreign direct investment -- Creating conditions for empowering the population -- Government provision of essential public services -- Safe drinking water and basic sanitation -- Accessible public health and health care services -- Accessible primary education -- Sustained human development -- Secondary and postsecondary schools and training centers -- Accessible, safe marketplaces -- Trade facilitation and control -- Other economic development efforts -- Conclusion : Institutions and Leadership -- Appendix: Countries in alert zone.