Sanctuary or Ungoverned Spaces:identification, symptoms and responses

[Jedburgh]

Wow, counter-terrorism activities are so far away from the World Bank's responsibilities that this is ridiculous.

The book, and this thread in general, is looking at the issue of failed/fragile states as a strategic enabling factor in the growth and spread of organized violence. It was never intended to take a narrow CT view.

The World Bank, despite its being a massive international bureaucracy - with all the problems inherent in that descriptor - at least recognizes the need to bridge the security-development divide. With the establishment of its Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group last year, it adjusted its structure and made an operational commitment to an attempt to more effectively address what it understood conceptually.

Ridiculous? No. Difficult, complex and destined to make plenty of mistakes along the way? Yes.