Join us Tuesday, May 11th at 9:00am EST
Topic: Fragility and Federalism
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvUl_fiijI0
Français: https://www.facebook.com/events/151477043596901/
Fragile
states pose a unique challenge for the development community. While no two are
identical, fragile states are more likely to experience higher rates of
poverty, violence, regional instability, social or ethnic division, and weak or
missing institutions. In many fragile states, in an attempt to sustain peace,
accommodation and stability and to share power concepts such as devolution,
decentralization and federalism are being brought into the political discourse.
Pathways for Peace, released in 2018 by the United Nations and World Bank,
provides the most significant recognition of the importance of federalism and
decentralization to reducing state fragility. It plainly asserts that
federalism has “proven effective in many cases in reducing local violent
conflict where there is horizontal inequality among groups […].” How federalism
and local government can play a role in efforts to build state resilience in a
discernible subset of fragile contexts, what the challenges and opportunities
are, and which role the international (donor) community can play, are questions
to be addressed in this webinar.
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