Post Conflict Peacebuilding > Public Finance and Economic Recovery

Peace and the Public PurseIn the wake of civil war, the state’s ability to collect and manage public resources will largely shape its ability to survive once the short-term avalanche of post-conflict international aid dwindles. CIC’s project on post-conflict public finance and economic recovery is developing research on how the economic agenda of public finance interacts with the political agendas of peacebuilding and statebuilding, lifting the curtain that has often separated the two. Research on the management of post-conflict finance includes issues such as right-financing security sector reform, managing natural resources and fiscal policies to promote horizontal equality. In addition to an ongoing series of policy papers on public finance, CIC published Peace and the Public Purse, a major study on economic policies for postwar statebuilding.

Lead Researcher: Shepard Forman, Barnett Rubin, Bruce Jones
Project Staff: Rahul Chandran, Jake Sherman, Gigja Sorensen

Funders: Government of Norway, Government of the United Kingdom, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, United States Institute of Peace.

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Recent Publications
Title Source Author Date
Resources for Peace? Managing Revenues from Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Environments CIC and Political Economy Research Institute Philippe Le Billon February 2008
Right-Financing Security Sector Reform CIC and Political Economy Research Institute Peter Middlebrook and Gordon Peake January 2008
Promoting Group Justice: Fiscal Policies in Post-Conflict Countries CIC and Political Economy Research Institute Frances Stewart, Graham Brown, and Alex Cobham October 2007
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