What is Peace Democracy and Development?

The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD) works with local partners to promote human security and strong, stable, democratic institutions worldwide through direct interventions and facilitated processes, strategy building, trainings and skills development, research, policy advice, project evaluation, and …

What factors influence democracy?

Economic, cultural, and historical factors have been cited as impacting on the process.

• Economic development and modernization.
• Equality and inclusive institutions.
• Culture.
• Social capital and civil society.
• Elite-driven democratization.
• Waves of democracy.
• Class alliances and cleavages.
• Rulers’ need for taxation.

What comes first peace or development?

Because economic, social and environmental issues are the core elements of sustainable development, it can be argued that the current era is experiencing greater sustainable development than any previous era. Peace comes before sustainable development.

What explains democracy?

Democracy is government in which power and civic responsibility are exercised by all adult citi- zens, directly, or through their freely elected rep- resentatives. Democracy rests upon the principles of majority rule and individual rights. Fair, frequent, and well-managed elections are essential in a democracy.

Do trade and democracy cause peace?

Regarding whether inclusion of factors such as trade or geography render the democratic peace to be insignificant, Russett and Oneal (2001) openly claim that both joint democracy and bilateral trade cause peace, as part of the “Kantian triangle.”

Do democracies fight each other to achieve peace?

Though there is strong consensus about the “dyadic” democratic peace, that democracies do not fight each other, there is more debate about the existence of other possible patterns of democratic peace.

Does democratization make States more peaceful?

For decades, international actors have sometimes supported democratization because of the belief that making states more democratic would cause them to be more peaceful, at least with each other.

Why don’t democracies make war?

A third variant is that the diffusion of power within democratic governments, such as the separation of powers, slows the abilities of democracies to make war (Reiter & Tillman, 2002; Russett, 1993 ). A second explanation focuses on norms.