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This paper contends that external actors do not have well-integrated and strategically coherent policies for dealing with the implementation of peace agreements. There is an obvious tension, for example, between the neo-liberal agenda of international financial institutions for reducing the direct economic and welfare roles of the state and the absence of satisfactory alternatives in safety netting for populations in dire need of a welfare system. The paper suggests that an alternative to the orthodox paradigm is to promote transparency and accountability in the external assistance to war-torn societies and in the generation of civil society.