The World Bank’s recently published 2011 World Development Report (WDR) focuses on the relationship between conflict, security, and development. The basic message of the Report is that it is important to “accept the links between security and development outcomes” (page 276), and it lays out an analysis of the basic trends underlying conflict and violence in the 21st century, as well as a series of policy recommendations to face “the challenge of repeated cycles of violence” (page 2).