This article provides a critical reflection on the efforts at legal reconstruction initiated in 2001 by the international community and the Afghan government. ...

The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current "consensus" of a new "harmonised" aid architecture, ...

Government policy since independence has by and large disregarded Sudan's multi-religious character through continuous Islamisation and Arabisation processes ...

This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state ...

Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government has during ...

Local democracy and the involvement of local communities in the provision of social services are central issues in the local government reforms that are ...

South Africa's return to the international community is fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. The gap between hopes and outcomes, between popular ...

Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the Community Development with Traditional Lead

Dos Justicias: Coordinación interlegal e intercultural en Guatemala (Two Justices: Interlegal and Intercultural Coordination in Guatemala) is the ...

A new Land Act introduced in Angola in 2004 demonstrates a genuine interest in the protection of the customary land rights of rural communities and underlines ...

The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community ...

Integrating anti-corruption measures into sector work – known as mainstreaming – receives increased attention from the development community. ...

The development community is striving to achieve results and value for money with its investments in health around the world. Yet, donors often work ...

Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries Ragnhild Overå Maritime Anthropologi

The aim of this group is to create a multi-disciplinary, multi-method Bergen-based research community focused on the study of natural resources, with ...

What opportunities do virtual museums create for dialog between diverse communities? How can virtual museums contribute to a development paradigm that moves beyond enduring conceptions of aid as a one-way transaction? How can digital media positively augment these processes?

This projets explores the social and economic effects of mining on two local communities in Tanzania: Geita (gold mining) and Mererani (Tanzanite). the ...

Wildlife crime is big business — by some estimates it is the fourth largest source of illegal trade after drugs, counterfeit goods and human trafficking. ...

SADC has a poor record in advancing peace and security in Southern Africa. Many identify poor policy frameworks and weak technical capacities as ...

The efforts of the international community to build peace in Sudan have been frustrated by the failure to stop the violence in Darfur, continuous setbacks ...