Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict

by Christopher Vaughan and Mareike Schomerus

Book Overview

Violent conflict and its aftermath are pressing problems, particularly for international development initiatives. However, the results of development in conflict contexts have generally been disappointing and their preventative potential thus questionable. Available Open Access, Lives Amid Violence argues that this is because practitioners adhere to a mental model that emphasises linearity, certainty, and causality, assuming that violence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755640837
• ISBN13: 9780755640836
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"