Culture in Post-Crisis Situations : Opportunities for Peacebuilding and Sustainable Recovery
The number of people affected by disasters around the world continues to rise, and countries face recurrent disasters in contexts of conflict and fragility. In 2016 more countries experienced violent conflict than at any time over the past three d...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/910351569914286207/Culture-in-Post-Crisis-Situations-Opportunities-for-Peacebuilding-and-Sustainable-Recovery http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32498 |
| Summary: | The number of people affected by
disasters around the world continues to rise, and countries
face recurrent disasters in contexts of conflict and
fragility. In 2016 more countries experienced violent
conflict than at any time over the past three decades. Much
of the recent violence has targeted urban areas and public
spaces, and the civilian death toll due to this kind of
violent conflict doubled between 2010 and 2016. Extreme
poverty is rising in fragile and conflict-affected
situations (FCS), and over half of the world’s poor are
expected to live in FCS by 2030. Culture plays an important
role in building and shaping institutions, and it can do so
in both positive and negative ways. Additionally, culture
and forms of cultural expression can aid institutions in
managing competing interests among different groups in
society, including creating spaces for inter-group dialogue
and opportunities for inter-group social interaction, or
establishing education systems that recognize minority
languages of instruction or a plurality of historical
narratives. In the pages that follow, this paper will
present the case for moving culturally-informed approaches
from the margins to the forefront of planning and
implementation of post-conflict and post-disaster responses,
and offer concrete operational guidance for doing so.
Section 2 builds on the case for pursuing a
culturally-informed approach in FCS. Section 3 offers
guidance for policymakers and operational teams on acquiring
and applying a culturally-informed approach in very
challenging contexts. Section 4 summarizes several
real-world examples in which stakeholders have successfully
operationalized a culturally-informed perspective to achieve
peace-building and reconstruction objectives. Finally,
Section 5 offers some concluding remarks. |
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