Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Establishing an effective and sustainable post-conflict reconstruction era is a major challenge to both domestic and international stakeholders. Many of the states that undergo violent conflict have institutional hurdles and face the potential for future conflicts. In most of these cases, donor fatigue has been on the rise leading to the re-directing of resources from these states. Post-conflict reconstruction is challenging because some of these institutions and structures we are trying to reconstruct do not exist in the first place. A critical element that needs to be constructed is trust. The lack of trust emanates from legitimacy concerns regarding existing or new structures.

The Center engages in this post-conflict reconstruction dynamics, critical among which is the issue of Human Security, and the institutions that promote them.