Title : Governance and Conflict Management: implications for donor intervention
Author(s) : Benedict Latto
Date : February 2002
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Abstract : Conflict, a state of opposition between ideas or interests, is unavoidable. Indeed, conflict can be a desirable generator of positive change and improvement. However, when conflict is expressed through violence, it can lead to massive civilian casualties, displacement, and economic hardship and state collapse - with the poor invariably being hit hardest. The premise of this paper is that it is possible to manage difference and divergence constructively and without resort to violence.