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SUMMARY:Peace and Prosperity - Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney\, Research Fellow at 
 Fitzwilliam College
DTSTART:20081021T143000Z
DTEND:20081021T155000Z
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CONTACT:Dacia Viejo Rose
DESCRIPTION:Conflict is self-perpetuating. Cycles of violence and vengeanc
 e feed from one another\, and the economic patterns which accompany them a
 ct in a similarly cyclical way. War leads to poverty\, and poverty fuels w
 ar\; left unchecked\, wartime economies can stimulate conflict and destabi
 lise peace. The international community is increasingly turning to economi
 c development as a means of addressing violent conflict\, hoping to promot
 e peace by spreading prosperity and relieving poverty. However\, opinion i
 s divided over how economic development should best be carried out in a po
 st-conflict situation\, and the international community is currently pursu
 ing varied (and sometimes conflicting) strategies. This paper surveys the 
 range of approaches currently being adopted by western governments and mul
 tilateral agencies\, and identifies a major fault-line between these appro
 aches. The paper goes on to consider what needs to be done to make economi
 c development more effective in post-conflict situations\, to work for bot
 h peace and prosperity.\n\nSpeaker: Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney is a Research Fe
 llow at Fitzwilliam College\, Cambridge. She is also currently working wit
 h the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) on the project Pri
 vate-Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Environments. Her main areas 
 of research are ethnic tension\, migration\, and community identity\; usin
 g both historical and contemporary examples.\n\nRespondent: Eleanor O’Go
 rman is a Research Fellow at the Centre of International Studies (Universi
 ty of Cambridge) and has over fifteen years experience in the fields of in
 ternational conflict\, human rights and development within multilateral\, 
 bilateral\, academic\, and NGO settings. She worked previously as Senior P
 olicy Adviser with UNDP\, serving in New York and Brussels where she led p
 olicy engagement on conflict prevention and peacebuilding with various UN 
 agencies and operations\, and with EU crisis management developments. She 
 also advised and supported field programmes and operations including Somal
 ia\, Liberia and Sri Lanka. \n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Seminar Room\, 17 Mill Lane
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