Economic Approach to Conflict Issue: Investment in Post- Conflict Situation for International Business

Post-Conflict Countries Series: A Strategy for More Investment

This is the second note in a series of notes assessing the role of public-private partnerships and private sector participation in post-conflict reconstruction and infrastructure development. This series is extracted from a PPIAF-funded review of policy and institutional capacity to facilitate private participation in infrastructure for Sudan, which was prepared by Castalia Limited in November ...

Regional and International Cooperation to Reduce Nagorno – Karabakh Conflict

Almost two decades since conflict broke out between Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia, two northern neighbors of Iran, in Nagorno – Karabakh region. Although military conflict in this region has minimized with the existing ceasefire, and reaching a sustainable agreement is likely to be happened by the two parties. Close regional and international cooperation seems necessary more than ever in o...

Conflict and Trade: an Economics Approach to Political International Interactions

[The Klein/Gronicki/Kosaka contributions dig deeply into the impact of revolutionary political change in Eastern European countries upon their economies and indirectly through trade upon Western European economies, focussing particularly on the repercussions of anticipated arms cutbacks. However, when we examine trade, a critical issue to most national and regional economies, and a phenomena th...

Business before Conflict:

International Peace-Making—Creating Post-Conflict Structures of Government

The means by which ethno-religious conflicts are resolved must themselves be “peace-ful”. So arbitration must be neutral, i.e., international. And discussions must involve not just the combatants but also representatives of those in civil society who are not involved in the conflict. After much shuttle diplomacy perhaps, they must all come together to reach a settlement. In other words, they sh...