05/07/2020
The universal law of fragility
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Global Fragility Law requires the United States government, in cooperation with civil society, to develop a 10-year strategy to increase stability and reduce violence and fragility around the world.
The Global Fragility Law, recently approved by the US House of Representatives and approved by a full Senate vote, provides a unique opportunity to change the international community’s views on development and implementation of conflict prevention programs to achieve a major victory in conflict prevention and stability, and the bill provides clear information from both the parties. Republicans and Democrats.
This message not only stresses the importance of addressing the root causes of conflict as a way to advance political and social interests on a global scale but also recognizes that prevention is the most cost-effective and most sustainable way to ensure long-term community sustainability and stability;
The global architecture now provides an opportunity to work on a pragmatic concept that has not been available for development professionals for a long time - convinced that conflict prevention financing is worth the investment.
Therefore, we must seize this opportunity at the appropriate time, as little attention is paid to the importance of preventing such conflicts. The bipartisan task force on unstable extremism, led by the United States Institute of Peace, the World Bank, and the United Nations Peace Tracks, provides a compelling reason why preventive investment is necessary.
Reports show the cost-effectiveness of prevention.
For every invested dollar, donors save from $ 2 to $ 7. The Institute of Economics and Peace estimates this year that the cost of containing violence is $ 14.1 trillion annually, equivalent to 11.2% of GDP.
The idea of preventive investment or prevention has been adopted to help prevent conflict based on a reference to the US Global Fragility Law, and some officials are now facing Senate opposition to ensuring global law for donor policies and communities, as well as implementing partners who operate according to this guide.
When developing cost-effective programs with a clear goal of moving along the curve, invest in programs that create potential and contribute to pre-conflict social cohesion efforts. As Congress develops a specific ten-year strategy in global fragility law, the voice of implementing partners must be used to link legislation with local realities with recommendations for implementing this fragility law in the world.
The source added that policymakers, donors and implementing partners will continue to respond to the massive number of crises occurring around the world, but we will also need to focus our attention, investments and actions on setting priorities to prevent them, so that implementing partners, through the local networks they created, can determine the possibility of a boycott. Cycles of violence and identification of early signs of potential conflict. Therefore, we say that there are five best practices that can help direct effective conflict prevention efforts:
First, steer clear of decision-making in a vacuum;
After the US administration is reorganized by the United States Agency for International Development, including the creation of the Office for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization, conflict prevention cases along with critical humanitarian assistance and food security, as well as the appointment of a known Development and Assistance and Response Officer such as R3, the level of prevention will rise To a higher agency level and easy to integrate into other areas of US AID offices.
To maximize the benefits of this reorganization, the policies and programs funded by each office must be consistent in order to reinforce each other. Washington DC teams, donors, and implementing partners in this area need coordination. Through a ten-year strategy, the Global Fragility Law gives US AID a leading role in inter-agency discussions between the US Agency for International Development, the State Department, and the Department of Defense, while highlighting areas in which donors can take advantage of prevention opportunities. Working with implementing partners as equal partners by creating a forum for cooperation between government and civil society.
For example, in Colombia, Chamonix worked closely with the National Early Warning System Support Section to identify, track, verify, and monitor risks, early signs of human rights violations, and the use of other sectoral prevention programs.
Although industry-specific programs are not specifically designed for conflict prevention, they can be guided by conflict prevention methods, but these programs often work in the cache at the donor and implementation level. Efforts to overcome these caches and participate in integrated programming in many sectors of information exchange and identify the best early signs of conflict.
We did this recently as part of a livelihood project in Sri Lanka that improved the economic sustainability of widows and people with disabilities due to the war through agricultural projects in various sectors. Acknowledging economic isolation may exacerbate tensions in these marginalized groups. The program focused on creating economic sustainability through agricultural production and developing project activities with a secondary goal of social integration and cohesion.
Understanding that humanitarian organizations can play an effective role in the many complex crises we witness today, the transition from humanitarian assistance to development rarely follows a linear path. Humanitarian intervention coexists with the efforts of the international community to consolidate stability, rebuild state institutions, and accelerate recovery.
Closer integration between development actors and humanitarian organizations can save lives urgently and pave the way for long-term social and economic development.
More importantly, closer coordination provides an opportunity for deliberate participation in conflict prevention to break the cycle of violence that causes humanitarian crises in the first place.
Now we have such an opportunity in Mozambique. Early signs of conflict appear in the north of the country, where we see an increase in violent attacks and an increase in the presence of violent extremist organizations or violent extremist organizations.
A recent hurricane worsened the situation and destroyed resources and livelihoods, putting many societies at risk.
The donor community must target humanitarian conflict prevention programs to support vulnerable groups of the population, mitigate the spread of violent extremist organizations, and reduce recruitment practices.
Early conflict dynamics are often evaluated to improve programming stability;
To reduce the possibility of conflict, we must assess the underlying grievances that lead societies to violence. Without a clear understanding of conflict dynamics, donors and implementers seek to develop programs that effectively reduce conflict.
As part of our community support program in Lebanon, we have developed a two-level approach to interacting effectively with vulnerable communities. We used qualitative and quantitative data to assess the degree of conflict vulnerability, the number of conflict incidents, the prevalence of tension, the poverty rate, the share of refugees and host countries, the availability of municipal councils and their willingness to effectively deal with complaints and reduce stress.
Data collection is an iterative process that provides a preliminary identification of the most vulnerable societies and tracks pressure dynamics in this way. This continues across the country.
Second, we introduced the mapping of local conflict dynamics systems to ensure the development of a comprehensive program with broad participation. Taken together, these steps ensure that measures achieve stability goals, are sensitive to conflict, and that success is effectively measured throughout the life of the project. This creates a rule of evidence that can be used to inform future programs across the country.
He added that the Global Fragility Law now allows a very long time to work on a concept far from development practitioners - to convince donors that financing conflict prevention is worth the investment. Moreover, implementing partners can and should play an important role in achieving the goal of global architecture and ensuring the effectiveness of a ten-year strategy: it brings real experience by working directly with local and recipient partners to resolve and mitigate the consequences of violent conflict in some of the most difficult circumstances.
It will be important for decision-makers to know if they will benefit from this wealth and experience in the foreseeable future.
International Organization for Peace, Security, and Humanity
