Foreign Direct Investment in Post Conflict Countries: Opportunities and Challenges

Countries recovering from conflicts face economic and institutional devastation ¯ of vital infrastructure such as schools, factories, communication networks, roads, railways, and water systems, as well as diminished human resources, a very weak legal structure and governmental institutions. In this context, policymakers are faced with the task of creating an integrated and comprehensive approach to post-conflict reconstruction with a view to sustainable economic development, political stability and peace consolidation. This volume critically examines the various approaches to encouraging and regulating foreign investment in post-conflict countries. From the perspectives of both the foreign investor and the host country, it suggests how policymakers in post-conflict countries can design a foreign investment strategy that brings real and meaningful economic development as part of the wider peace-building process. FDI in post-conflict countries is discussed from different methodological perspectives, including comparative law and comparative politics, based on case studies of Afghanistan, Rwanda, DRC, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Colombia, Angola and Mozambique. _______________________________

Nicholas Turner, an independent art historian, was formerly Keeper in the British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings and Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Jean Goldman is a scholar specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.
Obijiofor Aginam is an assistant professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University.