Panel discussion - Conflict legacies and post conflict recovery
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2022-06-03

This panel, moderated by journalist Tim Phillips, features Edward Miguel, Elina Kalkku, Rabab Fatima, Gilles Carbonnier, Adnan Khan, and Soukeyna Kane. Reconstruction after conflict is a complex and demanding endeavor. Conflicts leave behind institutional legacies that matter long after the end of wars because they shape important determinants of state building. This session will take stock of recent conflicts and discuss what has worked and what has not, regarding post-conflict recovery. It will explore questions related to the variation in political and economic trajectories of conflict-affected countries: why have some war-affected countries successfully been able to establish politically stable states, while others continue to endure cycles of violence and conflict? 

Further the panel will discuss what policies could support the economic recovery of communities and constrain the reignition of conflict and violence. A key question to be posed to the panel of esteemed experts will be around how economic recovery policies can be designed in ways that sustain peaceful and inclusive state-building trajectories in countries emerging from violent conflict. 

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