Download or read book Reconstructing War-Torn Societies written by S. Barakat and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As international attention focuses on the rebuilding of Afghanistan, this collection looks critically at the evolution and meaning of the core concepts underpinning aims and strategies for recovery: the key role of institutional development and capacity building in establishing good governance, based on collaboration between state, civil society and market; the empirical consensus, over many decades, for best practice in development; the acknowledgement that recovery of war-torn societies is a development challenge. It is also shown that, despite this understanding, operational practice continues to contradict these principles and lessons learned from proven experience.