Conflicts in Fragile States
Channel: ICNC - International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Date: 29/06/2012

Presenter: Dr. Richard Schultz / Director, International Security Studies Program / Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Fragile states are unable to control their territory, maintain a monopoly over the use of force, or provide essential services to their citizens beginning with human security. Often they are also plagued by excessive corruption. Armed groups can pose threats to such states, which also inspire civilian discontent that may be harnessed by movements using civil resistance to obtain rights. But the latter may ultimately prove beneficial on behalf of a more stable order.