ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights the necessity of cooperative for assistance and relief everywhere's programming to attain long-run financial self-sufficiency among local groups so that the poor can survive, instead of 'just throwing money around'. It presents an ambitious 'rights-based approach' to financing postconflict development and peacebuilding, where non-governmental organizations (NGOs) respect all human and environmental rights. The book argues that NGOs in Somalia found the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone troops to be inadequate and called for additional support from the UK and US. It focuses on Sierra Leone and East Timor, Jackson has a pluralistic view of aid dependency. The book shows that private military companies are less legally and politically accountable than the more regulated state militaries, and thus receive less attention and thus more effective, because their risks are lower.
