Quote Originally Posted by Steve the Planner View Post
Trouble is that, sometimes, we actually have to do our homework to help the remnant post-conflict survivors to re-connect to what was.

Steve
We also have cases where conflict has been ongoing for generations and nobody even remembers what once was. It's always easy to fall back on "go back to tribal governance structures", but in many cases these structures have been so heavily compromised by extended conflict and the emergence of other poles of power/force/money that they have little authority left.

I don't know that anyone has a really credible answer to the "how do we build a state" question, and I suspect that "do we really need to build a state" is often a question that needs to be asked first.