TY - BOOK ID - 135073968 TI - Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States. AU - Boyce, James K. AU - Forman, Shepard. PY - 2010 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Access to Finance KW - Accountability KW - Accounting KW - Arbitration KW - Capacity Building KW - Civil Society Organizations KW - Conflict and Development KW - Consensus KW - Constituencies KW - Corruption KW - Credibility KW - Debt Markets KW - Developing Countries KW - Development Economics & Aid Effectiveness KW - Economic Development KW - Economic Liberalization KW - Elections KW - Expenditures KW - External Assets KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Fiscal Sustainability KW - Foreign Aid KW - Foundations KW - Good Governance KW - Governance KW - Human Resources KW - Human Rights KW - International Cooperation KW - International Donors KW - International Finance KW - Legal System KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - National Governance KW - Needs Assessment KW - Observers KW - Opportunity Cost KW - Peace & Peacekeeping KW - Peacebuilding KW - Polarization KW - Political Economy KW - Political Institutions KW - Post Conflict Reconstruction KW - Public & Municipal Finance KW - Public Finance KW - Public Health KW - Public Sector KW - Roads KW - Rule of Law KW - Strategic Planning KW - Tax Administration KW - Tax Evasion KW - Tax Policy KW - Tax Reform KW - Trade Liberalization KW - Transaction Costs KW - Transparency KW - Violence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135073968 AB - After more than a decade of experience and research on financing arrangements in post conflict countries and fragile states, a consensus has emerged on at least one matter. The core objective is to build effective and legitimate governance structures that secure public confidence through provision of personal security, equal justice and the rule of law, economic well-being, and essential social services including education and health. These governance structures are necessary to ensure that countries do not turn, or turn back, to violence as a means of negotiating state-societal relations. This paper discusses a number of the weaknesses in current financing arrangements for post conflict countries and fragile states, with a focus on Official Development Assistance (ODA). We argue that tensions persist between business-as-usual development policies on the one hand and policies responsive to the demands of peace building on the other. The preferential allocation of aid to 'good performers,' in the name of maximizing its payoff in terms of economic growth, militates against aid to fragile and conflict-affected states. If the aim of aid is redefined to include durable peace, the conventional performance criteria for aid allocation lose much of their force. Compelling arguments can be made for assistance to 'poor performers' if this can help to prevent conflict. Yet the difficulties that initially prompted donors to become more selective in aid allocation remain all too real. Experience has shown that aid can exacerbate problems rather than solving them. ER -