Conflict and Development
Organisational adaptation in conflict situations
This paper was prepared as a background document for a workshop on Development in Conflict, held in Birmingham, UK, convened by ACORD, Birmingham University’s School of Public Policy, and Responding to Conflict. The growing incidence of armed conflicts in Africa and Eastern Europe, and their devastating impact, has placed this issue at the forefront of policy debates on aid and development. The Birmingham workshop brought together development practitioners and policy analysts to share experience and consider the adaptations that organisations and institutions need to make when working in situations of armed conflict. Illustrated with extracts from case studies on the work of ACORD in Africa, the paper draws together current thinking on the causes and impacts of conflict, and suggests a series of questions which aid organizations working in situations of armed conflict need to address.
Published: 1995
Pages: 75
eBook: 9780855986827
Paperback: 9780855983208
# Preamble; | |||
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# Acknowledgements; | |||
1. The problem: trends in world conflicts; | |||
2. The impact of armed conflict; | |||
3. Understanding conflict; | |||
4. The political analysis of conflict; | |||
# 4.1: State-society conflicts; | |||
# 4.2: Poverty and conflict; | |||
# 4.3: The political economy of war; | |||
5. Gender and conflict; | |||
# 5.1:The personal sphere; | |||
# 5.2:The private sphere; | |||
# 5.3:The public sphere; | |||
# 5.4:Conflict and power; | |||
6. The turbulence of change; | |||
# 6.1: Different perception a of change; | |||
7. Responding to conflict; | |||
# 7.1:Aiding conflicts; | |||
# 7.2:Beyond the relief model; | |||
8. 8.Organisational adaptation in conflict situations; | |||
# 8.1: Development and conflict; | |||
# 8.2: Working in conflict; | |||
# 8.3:Post-conflict development: the price of peace; | |||
# 8.4:Operational issues; | |||
# 8.5:Advocacy and policy reform; | |||
# 8.6:Thinking about conflict; | |||
# Notes; | |||
# Bibliography; | |||
# Information on the organisations involved in the workshop |
Mark Bradbury
Mark Bradbury is a social analyst and an experienced aid practitioner and researcher. He has lived and worked in Sudan and Somalia. His research has covered Somalia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, conflict and development, complex emergencies, conflict resolution, and human rights. He is Director of the Rift Valley Institute Horn of Africa Course.
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