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ISBN:
9780815713760
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Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict. Just as poverty begets insecurity, however, the reverse is also true. As the destabilizing effects of conflict settle in, civil institutions are undermined and poverty proliferates. Breaking this nexus between poverty and conflict is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. The authors of this compelling booksome of the most experienced practitioners from around the worldinvestigate the complex and dynamic relationship between poverty and insecurity, exploring possible agents for change. They bring the latest lessons and intellectual framework to bear in an examination of African leadership, the private sector, and American foreign aid as vehicles for improving economic conditions and security. Contributors include Colin Kahl (University of Minnesota),Vinca LaFleur (Vinca LaFleur Communications), Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley), Jane Nelson (Harvard University and Brookings), Anthony Nyong (University of Jos and the International Development Research Centre, Nairobi), Susan Rice (Brookings), Robert Rotberg (Harvard University and the World Peace Foundation), Marc Sommers (Tufts University), Hendrik Urdal (International Peace Research Institute), and Jennifer Windsor (Freedom House).
Content:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: The Tangled Web: The Poverty-Insecurity Nexus -- Chapter 2: Poverty Breeds Insecurity -- Chapter 3: Poverty and Violence: An Overview of Recent Research and Implications for Foreign Aid -- Chapter 4: Demography, Environment, and Civil Strife -- Chapter 5: Resource and Environmental Security -- Chapter 6: The Demographics of Political Violence: Youth Bulges, Insecurity, and Conflict -- Chapter 7: Embracing the Margins: Working with Youth amid War and Insecurity -- Chapter 8: The Role of Leadership in Overcoming Poverty and Achieving Security in Africa -- Chapter 9: Operating in Insecure Environments -- Chapter 10: Breaking the Poverty-Insecurity Nexus: Is Democracy the Answer? -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Note:
"The chapters draw from a conference at the Aspen Institute held on August 2 to August 4, 2006, called, "The Tangled Web: The Poverty-Insecurity Nexus" --P. viii
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815713753
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Too poor for peace? Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, 2007 ISBN 9780815713753
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0815713754
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Entwicklungsländer
;
Armut
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Entwicklungsländer
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Gewalttätigkeit
;
Konferenzschrift
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