Working Paper No.9
Governance and Conflict Management: implications for donor
intervention
Benedict Latto
DFID
February 2002
Conflict, a state of opposition between ideas or interests, is unavoidable.
Indeed, conflict can be a desirable generator of positive change and improvement.
However, when conflict is expressed through violence, it can lead to massive civilian casualties,
displacement, and economic hardship and state collapse - with the poor invariably being hit hardest.
The premise of this paper is that it is possible to manage difference and divergence constructively and without resort to violence.
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