Search results

Pressure on development actors to demonstrate results has forced the adoption of logical models that objectify contexts and people through cultural, time, and other value-laden frames that distance the service providers from those they purport to serve. This permits the compartmentalisation of the past, the present, and the future of target populations into dismembered experiences in which the emotions, knowledge, and desires of people bear no relationship to each other. Based on encounters in workshops, focus group discussions, and personal interviews, as part of post-conflict peace and development interventions in Liberia, this study asserts that the best efforts of donors and practitioners in peace and development can do no more than skirt around the challenges ordinary people face without finding lasting solutions, since their metrics aim to make the targets be like them, not better of themselves. Donors count what target populations do not count as peace or development.

Im September 2000 kamen 105 Vertreter der katholischen Kirche in Enugu zu einem Workshop zusammen um zu diskutieren, welchen Beitrag die Kirche und ihre Organe zu Gerechtigkeit, Frieden und Entwicklung in Nigeria leisten können. Die Schrift enthält drei Tagungsbeiträge (Innocent Jooji: "Conflict transformation and peace buildung" und "Reconciliation"; Barth O. Nwanedo: "Caritas agenda"), berichtet über den Ablauf des Workshops und dokumentiert das Kommuniqué der Veranstaltung. (DÜI-Sbd)

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1. Evaluating Religious and Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue: Challenges, and Implications -- Challenges in Peacebuilding Evaluation -- Vying for Good -- When My Peace Is Not Your Peace -- Exploring Power Dynamics of Religious Leaders -- Section 2. New Models and Tools in Evaluating Religious and Interreligious Peacebuilding -- Transcendence and the Evaluation of Faith-Based Peacebuilding -- Linking Evaluators and Inter-Religious Peacebuilders -- Assessing the Impact of Interfaith Initiatives -- Author Biographies -- Index