World Development Report 2011: Conflict Security and Development in 2011

Hosted by: NSW AIIA and The World Bank, Sydney Office

The event will start on: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 6:00 PM

And will end on: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 7:30 PM

At The Glover Cottages, Sydney

124 Kent Street , Sydney NSW

(02) 9247 8504     nswexec@aiia.asn.au

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On Wednesday May 11, the NSW AIIA will be hosting an evening with Nigel Roberts, Director of the World Bank's World Developement Report 2011. As his only public address in Sydney to launch this new report, it will be a unique opportunity to hear Nigel speak about challenges to, and opportunities for combating global poverty in the twenty-first century.

The WDR 2011, released 11 April 2011, presents new research and insights into the causes and development consequences of conflict, and puts forth practical recommendations for building sustainable peace in societies experiencing — or at risk of — large scale violence. The report stresses that breaking cycles of violence requires legitimate national institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice, jobs and economic security, while also alleviating the international stresses that increase the risks of violent conflict. The report draws on extensive consultations with civil society, government reformers, countries and partners in the UN system and in regional institutions, and makes use of a series of analytic studies to draw on the experience of countries that have successfully managed to transition away from repetitive violence.

NIGEL ROBERTS has worked in international development for most of the last 40 years, spending much of this time in the field. Between 1968 and 1978 he worked for various development NGOs, in particular VSO (in Thailand), the Britain-Nepal Medical Trust and Save the Children Fund (in Nepal), and as a journalist (in Hong Kong). Nigel joined the World Bank in 1981 as an agricultural economist. Before co-directing the WDR team he spent almost 20 years working as a field-based Bank Country Manager and then Country Director for the Bank (Nepal, Ethiopia, West Bank and Gaza, Sydney/Pacific). Nigel has an MA in English Literature from Oxford and an MPhil in Agricultural Economics from Reading University, UK. He was a postgraduate research Fellow in Development Economics at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, in 1992-3.