Lives Amid Violence

Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict

Mareike Schomerus (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4087-4 (ISBN)

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Violent conflict and its aftermath are pressing problems, particularly for international development initiatives. However, the results of development in conflict contexts have generally been disappointing and their preventative potential thus questionable. Available Open Access, Lives Amid Violence argues that this is because practitioners adhere to a mental model that emphasises linearity, certainty, and causality, assuming that violence is best addressed through work plans that deliver state-building, stabilisation and services. Based on ten years of multi-method research from, in, and on conflict-affected countries, this book challenges this approach.

Drawing on a significant collaborative body of scholarship, this work puts forward original and generalizable conclusions about how lives amid violence persist, offering an invitation to abandon restricting mental models and to embrace creative ways of thinking and working. These include paying attention to the long-term effects of conflict on individual behaviour and decision-making, the social realities of economic life, the role service delivery plays in negotiations between citizens and states, and to creating meaningful relationships. Transformation also requires reflection and therefore the book concludes with constructive suggestions on how to practice these insights to better support those whose lives are shaped by violence.

More details are available at www.transformingdevelopment.org

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Mareike Schomerus, (PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science) is Vice President at the Busara Center in Nairobi. Her research asks questions about international development, about violence, and about how best to acquire a deeper understanding of the invisible factors that shape today’s complex challenges and violent conflicts. Her writing is published in academic journals, reports, mass media, and in various books. In addition to her previous roles as Director of Programme Politics and Governance at ODI in London and Research Director of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, also at ODI, she has advised numerous international development and peacebuilding organizations.

Quanta by Michael Onsando
1 Goodbye yellow brick road: Beyond the status quo of development in the wake of conflict
2 The problem with bricks: Why building and stabilizing went to the wall
3 Money can’t move a ton of bricks: The real currency of economic life
4 Times are a-changin’, but the tide is not turning: Why life after conflict does not automatically get better
5 Vertical columns of accelerated air: The mental landscape
6 A satellite image of the neighbourhood: How who you are matters
7 You can’t make bricks without straw: People and states
8 Mortar stronger than bricks: Connections and relationships
Stories by Michael Onsando
Afterword: Practicalities by Stephanie Buell and Mareike Schomerus
Postface: The roots of this book: Ten years of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) by Marcus Langley and Mareike SchomerusIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7556-4087-X / 075564087X
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4087-4 / 9780755640874
Zustand	Neuware