Working Papers

The Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit regularly issues Working Papers on different issues relating to conflict, poverty, and development. Hard copies of the Working Papers are available upon request.

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• Decentralizing Inequality? Center-Periphery Relations, Local Governance, and Conflict in Aceh, December 2006
• Remittances and Economic Development in Somalia: An Overview, November 2006
• Rule of Law Reform in Post-Conflict Countries: Operational Initiatives and Lessons Learnt, October 30, 2006
• The Impact of Armed Conflict on Male Youth in Mindanao, Philippines, July 2006
• Facilitating Transitions for Children and Youth: Lessons from Four Post-Conflict Fund Projects, May 2006
• Mainstreaming Gender in Conflict Analysis: Issues and Recommendations, February 2006
• Fearing Africa's Young Men: The Case of Rwanda, January 2006
• Consolidating Indonesia' s Democracy: Conflict, Institutions and the "Local" in the 2004 Legislative Elections, December 30, 2005
• Strategic Environmental Assessments: Capacity Building in Conflict-Affected Countries, December 15, 2005
• Demand-Driven Approaches to Livelihood Support in Post-War Contexts: A Joint ILO-Worl-Bank Study, October 30, 2005
• Survey of the German Language Literature on Conflict, October 15, 2005
• Conflict-Sensitive Development Assistance: The Case of Burundi, June 30, 2005
• Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence, June 15, 2005
• Counting Conflicts: Using Newspaper Reports to Understand Violence in Indonesia, April 2005 
• The Mindanao Conflict in the Philippines: Roots, Costs, and Potential Peace Dividend, February 28, 2005
• The Roots of Violence and Prospects for Reconciliation: A Case Study of Ethnic Conflict in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, February 15, 2005 
• International Companies and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Cross-Sectoral Comparisons, February 01, 2005
• Community Cohesion in Liberia: A Post-War Rapid Social Assessement , January 15, 2005
• Addressing Gender in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations in the Philippines, January 01, 2005
• Understanding Local Level Conflict in Developing Countries: Theory, Evidence and Implications from Indonesia, December 15, 2004
• Drugs and Development in Afghanistan, December 01, 2004
• Within and Beyond Borders: An Independent Review of Post-Conflict Fund Support to Refugees and the Internally Displaced, October 2004
• The Private Sector's Role in the Provision of Infrastructure in Post-Conflict Countries: Patterns and Policy Options, August 15, 2004
• Practical Guide to Multilateral Needs Assessments in Post-Conflict Situations, August 01, 2004
• Practical Guide to Multilateral Needs Assessments in Post-Conflict Situations: Suppporting Material, August 01, 2004
• The Devil in the Demographics: The Effect of Youth Bulges on Domestic Armed Conflict, 1950-2000, July 2004
• MIGA's Experience in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 2004
• Social Capital and Survival:  Prospects for Community-Driven Development in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone , April 2004
• Do Participatory Development Projects Help Villagers Manage Local Conflicts? (Revised version), March 2004
• Timor-Leste: Independent Review of the Credit Component of the Community Empowerment Project, March 2004
• Landmine Clearance: Task Manager's Guide, November 2003
• Gender Equality and Civil Wars, September 2003
• Community-driven Reconstruction as an Instrument in War-to-Peace Transitions, August 2003
• Financing and Aid Management Arrangements in Post-Conflict Situations, June 2003
• Using Case Studies to Expand the Theory of Civil War, May 2003
• Central America: Education Reform in a Post-Conflict Setting,Opportunities and Challenges, April 2003
• Humanitarian Assistance, Reconstruction and Development in Afghanistan: A Practitioners' View, March 2003
• The East Timor Reconstruction Program: Successes, Problems and Tradeoffs, November 2002
• Children, Education and War: Reaching Education For All (EFA) Objectives in Countries Affected by Conflict, June 2002