Fragile, Conflict, and Postconflict States
Our Capabilities
Democracy International has significant experience working in fragile, conflict, and postconflict environments. We can effectively and efficiently mobilize programs and technical assistance teams in multiple conflict and fragile environments. We understand the difficulties of working where the personal security of outsiders is open to question. We have dealt with a range of health, safety, and security matters, including emergency response procedures, specific security threats, medical emergencies, personal security details, coordination with host-country and international military and other security personnel, deployment of personnel to provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs), and the evacuation of staff members during a coup. We have worked and conducted programs in challenging security environments in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Indonesia, Pakistan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and various countries in Africa, among other places.
We have given careful professional consideration to the particular challenges of postconflict and fragile environments. For example, our chapter on “Election Systems and Political Parties in Post-Conflict and Fragile States” in Derick W. Brinkerhoff (ed.), Rebuilding Governance in Post-Conflict Societies and Fragile States: Emerging Perspectives, Actors, and Approaches addresses case studies in Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq. and the West Bank and Gaza. Similarly, we have participated in a State Department working group and conference on elections and security in postconflict environments.
Our Experience
- Afghanistan, International Election Monitoring, Election Reform, and Civil Society Advocacy (2009-present)
- Sudan, Domestic Election Monitoring, Parallel Vote Tabulation, and Voter Registration Audit (2010-present)
- Timor-Leste, Building Quantitative Research Skills (2007-present)
- Haiti, Election Evaluation (2009)
- Pakistan, International Election Observation and Domestic Election Monitoring (2007-08)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Democracy and Governance Assessment (2007)
- Aceh, Election Support Project (2005-06)
- Haiti, Assistance to Election Authorities (2005-06)
- Haiti, Parallel Vote Tabulation (2005)
- Colombia Democracy and Governance Assessment (2005)
- Indonesia, Comprehensive International Election Monitoring (2004)
