Fragil, Conflict, Viol Dev

1.5 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course is built around five key issues bringing a development lens to fragility, conflict, and violence. First, we will reflect on the link between fragility, conflict, violence (FCV), and poverty, why FCV represents such a pressing development challenge for both low- and middle-income countries. Second, working on select country case studies, we will discuss how practitioners apprehend the complex factors that influence resilience to shocks and stresses in a given context, a process critical to developing and improving a theory for effecting change. Third, we will discuss how forced displacement has become an urgent development challenge for hosting countries facing significant challenges in meeting their own development goals while accommodating people displaced for long periods of time. Fourth, and because over the past decade, more people have been killed from political violence and homicides in middle-income countries than low-income ones, we will discuss the extent of the issue drawing on several case studies. And fifth, we will discuss the role Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) can play in addressing fragility, conflict, and violence around the world, whether by addressing root causes of conflict, remaining engaged in crisis situations, or supporting countries that are recovering from violent conflict, in partnership with security, development, peacebuilding, and humanitarian actors.