There is a current lack of consensus as to how to diagnose, understand and respond to fragility in states. CIC’s pathbreaking work in this field, building upon its Peacebuilding as Statebuilding project, and recent paper, Concepts and Dilemmas of State Building in Fragile Situations : From Fragility to Resilience, written for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, has put it at the forefront of efforts to improve international support to the formation of stable, resilient states.
The Reducing State Fragility Project seeks to expand on existing research by examining the manifestations and drivers of fragility, regional and international capacities for response, and by identifying comparative advantages across the United Nations, the World Bank, Regional Development Banks, and bilateral actors.
A separate component will look at current frameworks for early warning, and seek to identify if, and how, mechanisms could more effectively communicate the types and magnitudes of risk posed by various manifestations of fragility.
Project Staff: Elsina Wainwright, Rahul Chandran, Jake Sherman, Sara Batmanglich, Gigja Sorensen
Funder: Government of Denmark, Ford Foundation, UK Global Conflict Prevention Pool, Carnegie Corporation of New York. |
