That might be fairer, too; in Kenya, for example, rates of sexual violence are also high outside conflict areas.But improving health and social services, and law enforcement, in poor, conflict-torn places is hardly easy either.
In persons with poor conflict-handling skills, both problems may increase the risk of aggression.
So in this volatile region, Somaliland has become a demonstration of the possible, sustaining a one-person one-vote democracy in a poor, conflict-torn place that gets very little help.
It is not uncommon to hear stories of how difficulty in dealing with interpersonal communication and poor conflict resolution issues led to severe marital strain and, sometimes, even eventual separation and divorce.
All of the constraints and challenges of HAT treatment in resource-poor conflict zones can be found in the Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé areas of the Orientale Province of northeastern DRC.
Could Liberia help define what constitutes effective prevention and treatment of chronic diseases in poor, post-conflict settings?
Globally, chronic diseases are responsible for an enormous burden of deaths, disability, and economic loss, yet little is known about the optimal health sector response to chronic diseases in poor, post-conflict countries.
With a strong data infrastructure and committed international partnership, Liberia could generate invaluable and sorely lacking comparative effectiveness data, helping to define what constitutes effective prevention and treatment of chronic diseases in poor, post-conflict settings.
Lack of knowledge, capacity and capability in providing enabling policies, laws, regulations, plans, technical support and management systems has too often resulted in poor performance and conflict.
So Paul Collier's new book on democracy and conflict in poor countries is timely.
For Kofi Annan, the previous secretary-general, the big issue was peacekeeping and conflict in poor countries.
