What is meant by conflict and fragility?

What is meant by conflict and fragility?

Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) is a critical development challenge that threatens efforts to end extreme poverty, affecting both low- and middle-income countries. By 2030, up to two-thirds of the world’s extreme poor will live in FCV settings.

What are the characteristics of a fragile state?

Fragile states have characteristics that substantially impair their economic and social performance. These include weak governance, limited administrative capacity, chronic humanitarian crises, persistent social tensions, and often, violence or the legacy of armed conflict and civil war.

What is a fragile state example?

The five most fragile countries, which comprise the index’s Very High Alert category, are Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the High Alert category are the Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan and Afghanistan.

How many people live in fragile and conflict affected situations?

CONFLICT SETTINGS Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in places characterized by fragility and violent conflict: by 2030, 85 percent of the extreme poor—some 342 million people—will live in fragile and conflict-affected states.

How does conflict affect a country?

In addition to battlefield casualties, armed conflict often leads to forced migration, refugee flows, capital flight, and the destruction of societies’ infrastructure. It also creates a development gap between those countries that have experienced armed conflict and those that have not.

How has conflict-affected the world?

Conflicts also drive 80% of all humanitarian needs. Violent conflict has spiked dramatically since 2010, and the fragility landscape is becoming more complex. Climate change, rising inequality, demographic change, new technologies, illicit financial flows and other global issues may also create fragility risks.

Why are fragile states important?

Fragile states matter because poverty is so widespread; because they can destabilise regional and global security; and because the costs of late response to crisis are high.

What makes a country fragile?

There is no internationally agreed definition of fragility but for the purposes of this paper, states are considered fragile when their government cannot or will not deliver the core functions to its people, including the poor. These include: weak political institutions, economic decline, poverty, and violent conflict.

What is the fragility of a country?

A fragile state or weak state is a country characterized by weak state capacity or weak state legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks.

What are conflict affected countries?

Fragile and conflict affected situations

• Afghanistan.
• Armenia.
• Azerbaijan.
• Burkina Faso.
• Burundi.
• Cameroon.
• Central African Republic.
• Chad.

How many countries are fragile?

Since 2013, the Fragile States Index has assessed 178 countries, after initially beginning with only 75 countries in 2005 and 146 in 2006.

How does conflict affect us?

It causes errors and misjudgements, lowers productivity and raises employee turnover. It can ruin your working life if you are caught up in an unresolved conflict, even if you are trapped in the crossfire of someone else’s dispute. Unresolved workplace conflict affects far more than the people involved in the dispute.