Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (DRC): Recent submissions
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Between Rationality and Intuition: A Social Psychology Approach to Ex?Combatant Children in Colombia
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)Throughout its history, Colombia has been marked by different forms of violence. The involvement of children as soldiers is a phenomenon that recurs across generations. This article asks how the methodology governing social ... -
Negotiating Children's Social Contexts in Jamaica: Ethics, Practicalities and Research Methodologies
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)Conducting research in contexts of violence requires sensitivity and prudence, particularly when the study involves children. This article outlines some of the ethical and practical issues that influenced ‘how’ researchers ... -
Survey Methodology in Violence-prone Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)This article discusses the methodological challenges of a service delivery survey in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, South Africa. The survey aimed to gain a better understanding of the relationship between citizen ... -
Methodological Dilemmas: Researching Violent Young Men in Medellín, Colombia
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)This article highlights the main methodological problems and solutions encountered while researching violent young men in the marginalised north?eastern area of Medellín, Colombia. Using ethnographic methods, the research ... -
Researching the Gendered Silences of Violence in El Salvador
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)All research on violence is informed by silences. In practical terms, an immediate reading of silence may be that it presents an obstacle for the researcher who is dependent on people who are willing to speak out. Another ... -
Researching Masculinity and Violence in Sri Lankan Politics: Subject Construction as Methodology
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)This article discusses a research methodology study which worked with young men – members of a formerly armed Tamil group in Sri Lanka, now struggling to survive in electoral politics. Study participants had security ... -
Risk and Fear in Researching Violence
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)This briefing note discusses the part played by risk and fear in the process of research into citizenship and violence in Brazil. Rio's favelas are marked by extreme violence, partly through publicised acts of brutality, ... -
Researching with ‘Violent Actors’: Dangers, Responsibilities and Ethics
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)It is difficult to understand people's stories if researchers do not go beyond the labelling and categorisation that is common in all contexts. Those who live outside inner?city communities in Jamaica often do not understand ... -
Bringing the Reality to Policymakers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)Often, researchers assume that disseminating findings to policymakers is straightforward and that policymakers have the best interests of the researched communities at heart. However, this is not necessarily the case in ... -
Negotiating Access for Participatory Research with Armed Actors
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)Carrying out research in areas controlled by armed actors requires an ongoing process of negotiation along a series of different axes. Permission from these non?state groups is essential in order to have access to the ... -
Building Interfaces Between State and Community
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)An important dimension of the research process in the case of Rio de Janeiro's favelas was linking the research to policy dialogues on public security. This briefing note explores some of the issues that emerged through ... -
Conclusion: Understanding Violent Realities … and Transforming Them?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/05/2009)The conclusion sums up the contributions which this IDS Bulletin makes towards the goals of reducing violence through social action and improving research in violent contexts. These contributions are of three kinds: ... -
Cartographers, Conciliators and Catalysts: Understanding the Communicative Roles of Researchers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)A review of case studies from a global, ten-year research project coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies suggests that previous efforts to understand the value of research for promoting social change has ... -
Brazilian Experiences of Participation and Citizenship: a Critical Look
(Institute of Development Studies, 2008)Brazil's emergence from two decades of military dictatorship in the mid-1980s gave rise to a flowering of democratic innovation. Experiences during the struggle for democracy shaped the experiments that took place over the ... -
Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2005)This paper summarises the findings of a comparative research project on the contribution of civil society organisations to democratisation in Africa. Drawing primarily on empirical case studies of civil society organisations ... -
AIDS, citizenship and global funding : a Gambian case study
(IDS, 2009)Making sense of an HIV-positive diagnosis is often a struggle. Across Africa this is mediated by a new globalism in public health; the last decade has seen an array of new international initiatives and funding mechanisms. ... -
Rude accountability in the unreformed state : informal pressures on frontline bureaucrats in Bangladesh
(IDS, 2009)‘Rude’ forms of accountability are central to how poor people negotiate their entitlements on the frontline of service delivery in Bangladesh. This paper documents the unorganised, informal pressures that poor citizens ... -
Global engagements with global assessments : the case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
(IDS, 2008)The IAASTD – the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development – which ran between 2003 and 2008, involving over 400 scientists worldwide, was an ambitious attempt to encourage ... -
'Show me the evidence' : mobilisation, citizenship and risk in Indian asbestos issues
(IDS, 2009)This paper examines asbestos issues, mobilisation and citizenship in India. It shows how asbestos has been considered as a tool for Indian economic growth and modernisation and explores the scientific debates around its ... -
Democratising trade politics in the Americas : insights from the women's, environmental and labour movements
(IDS, 2009)This paper explores the extent to which and the ways in which civil society groups are contributing to the democratisation of trade policy and politics in the Americas. It explores the strategies adopted by a range of ...