Publication

This paper assesses the implications of disorder, violence and oppression wrought by governments across the developing world for collective security. The author describes a process of autonomous recovery in which states achieve a lasting peace, a systematic reduction in violence, and post-war political and economic development in the absence of international intervention. The author further offers a series of theoretical reasons and uses case studies of recovery in Uganda, Eritrea and Somalia to demonstrate how it works in practice. The paper concludes by identifying three tradeoffs that policymakers confront when weighing whether and how to respond to internal conflict.