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 New article on Eastern Congo and Somalia: Returning to realities
August 2010
Fafo research director Morten Bøås has published the article "Returning to realities: a building-block approach to state and statecraft in Eastern Congo and Somalia" in Conflict, Security & Development, Volume 10, Issue 4. Bøås argues that the international community has been involved in state-building exercises in these two countries without any obvious positive effects, and suggests that the conventional approach to state-building is in dire need of rethinking. What both these cases displays albeit in different ways, is the need for a buillding-block approach that actively engages with realities on the ground; building the state from the hinterland towards the capital and not the other way around. In the case of Somalia, this is based on the observation that the breakaway “state” of Somaliland is a much more stable and state like entity than the rest of Somalia. Even if this is less esasily observed in Eastern Congo, the argument is attractive as it draws our attention to local configurations of power. Such an approach would therefore be more context specific and sensitive, recognising that states are the outcome of historical and social processes, and that international interventions must be fine-tuned to these realities.
Read more about the article Returning to realities at Informaworld |
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24 August 2010
Elizabeth Mills at the University of Cape Town and Fafo-researchers Marina Manuela de Paoli and Arne Backer Grønningsæter have published the report HIV/AIDS, the disability grant
and ARV adherence.
Through triangulated qualitative and quantitative research methods, they studied whether people living with HIV faced trade-offs between treatment adherence
and grant termination. The report was presented at a Fafo seminar today.
Download the Fafo-report HIV/AIDS, the disability grant
and ARV adherence
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