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USAID Workshop on
Conflict Prevention Management
>> USAID Home >> Conflict Prevention >> June 2000 Workshop
SESSION III: DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE: JUSTICE AND SECURITY
Sylvia Fletcher, OTI, Discussant
June 7, 2000
Click here to hear an audio clip from this speech.
There has been much talk of prevention and postconflict issues, but what of conflict itself? The most costly efforts are intractable, mid-crisis conflicts. Most conflicts themselves can be classified as mid-crisis. What is preventive development? Can't this be defined as development without failure?
The idea of a programmatic continuum stretching from humanitarian assistance to sustainable development has been disproved by experience. The two are not mutually exclusive, particularly in conflict interventions. USAID's crisis response efforts need more integrated development, taking the best from both humanitarian and development traditional programming. The two sides of the continuum should be linked. In a crisis country where development is failing, USAID could do better not to throw out development programming completely, but integrate it into crisis management.
UNDP's framework, outlined previously, is not strategic or operational enough. Its weakness lies in over-analysis. Crisis mentality by nature leads to selectivity - what are the make or break, do or die issues. Development agencies are not focused enough on the "strategic vision" outlined by Frank O'Donnell. Such a strategic vision should integrate rapid response with development issues, with the unifying element being the integrity of local institutions.
Transcription of audio clip: "If any message comes clear after the two days of discussion thus far it's the integration of the need to understand good economics, good security, good democracy areas and how they overlap is something that should be revisited in our own development of the strategy in this area."
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