Investing in Peace - Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars (Paperback)

This study analyzes aid after negotiated settlements to civil wars, drawing on recent experiences in Bosnia, Cambodia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It focuses on the potential for peace conditionality, linking aid to steps to implement accords and consolidate the peace. The study explores how aid can encourage domestic investment in peace-related needs; how to reconcile long-run peacebuilding objectives with short-run humanitarian imperatives; and the obstacles that donors' usual priorities and procedures pose to effective aid for peace. Investing in peace, the author concludes, requires not only the reconstruction of war-torn societies but also the reconstruction of aid itself.