Post-conflict Reconstruction and Local Government (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jackson, Paul; Wall, Gareth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides case study, cross-case studies, practitioner reflection and conceptual material on the function of local government in the context of decentralisation in post-conflict countries, from both academics and policy-makers. The chapters were originally published in the online journal Third World Thematics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000022520
• Artikelnr.: 59571528

Autorenporträt

Paul Jackson is a political economist working on post-conflict reconstruction. He is Professor of African Politics in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham, UK, and currently a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Gender and African Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His extensive experience on governance in Sierra Leone led him into conflict analysis and security sector reform. He is currently an advisor to the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre and programme leader on the Sustainable Development Programme for the British Academy. Gareth J. Wall oversees the research and knowledge management activities of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, focusing on ensuring good practice lessons from CLGF programmatic work and from our ministerial and local government membership to inform policy and practice across the Commonwealth. He is concurrently undertaking doctoral research on deliberative democracy for human development in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Local government and decentralisation in post-conflict contexts 2.
Taking stock of Rwanda's decentralisation: changing local governance in a
post-conflict environment 3. Beneath the veneer: decentralisation and
post-conflict reconstruction in Rwanda 4. The role of decentralisation in
post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone 5. Mediating the margins: the
role of brokers and the Eastern Provincial Council in Sri Lanka's post-war
transition 6. Decentralisation, security consolidation and territorial
peacebuilding: is Colombia about to close the loop? 7. Educational
decentralisation in post-conflict societies: approaches and constraints 8.
Local government dissolution in Karachi: chasm or catalyst? 9.
Decentralisation as a post-conflict state-building strategy in Northern
Ireland, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and Rwanda 10. Decentralisation and local
governance in post-conflict contexts: a practitioner's perspective