post-conflict reconstruction

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Dictionary meaning

the process of rebuilding the physical, institutional, economic, and social fabric of societies after the end of armed conflict, encompassing infrastructure repair, restoration of basic services, disarmament demobilisation and reintegration of combatants, security sector reform, judicial and governance reconstruction, and the economic recovery necessary to reduce the grievances and opportunity costs that can fuel renewed conflict; post-conflict reconstruction is particularly complex because it occurs in settings with destroyed infrastructure, depleted state capacity, traumatised populations, unresolved political disputes, and the presence of armed groups that may resist the peace; international actors — the UN, World Bank, regional organisations, bilateral donors, and NGOs — play significant roles in financing and technically supporting reconstruction, raising questions about coordination, sovereignty, and the sustainability of externally dependent processes