(ed.) Raimo Vayrynen and E. Wayne Nafziger (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave in association with the United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2002).

Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book, the third volume in a series for the United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies, and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long-term development policies rather than mediation or reconstruction after the conflict ensues. Policies include democratization, reforming institutions, strengthening civil society, improving the state's administrative capability, agrarian reform, accelerating economic growth through stabilization and adjustment, reducing inequalities, and redesigning aid to be more stable.

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