Concluding Remarks
Dick
McCall June 7, 2000

Conflict management is an essential part if the development
challenge. To argue about a disconnect between development and
conflict prevention is essentially to argue a false dichotomy. The
countries in question are mostly inhibited by fractured,
underdeveloped nationhood. USAID must understand its role and what
it is trying to achieve in these countries. Should sustainable
development be the goal? Humanitarian assistance? Programming and
analysis is much too stovepiped within the Agency. Conflict
prevention and management cannot and should not be boxed off into
separate sectoral components.
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