Untangling Early Recovery

Author(s)
Bailey, S and Pavanello, S.
Publication language
English
Pages
4pp
Date published
01 Oct 2009
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Response and recovery
Organisations
ODI
The focus of this Policy Brief is on conflict
settings. This is not to downplay the important
lessons that can be learned from recovery in the
aftermath of natural disasters. Indeed, natural
disasters can trigger very similar processes of
social and political change. While recognising
the analogies between recovery from conflict
and from natural disasters, it is also important
to keep in mind the fundamentally different
challenges that these contexts present and,
consequently, the different responses that
they require. The very concept of recovery
takes on different connotations depending
on what people are actually recovering from,
and the conditions under which recovery can
take place. The logic of recovery in a conflictaffected
society, where institutions, governance
mechanisms and social relationships are
radically transformed, is inherently different
from recovery in a natural disaster setting, where
the institutional and political environment may
well be relatively stable.