Title Power, Politics, and Change : How International Actors Assess Local Context / Jenna Slotin, Vanessa Wyeth, and Paul Romita

Published New York, NY : Center on International Cooperation, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (22 pages) Contents Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Approach and Methodology -- Background and Evolution of Assessment Tools -- Extent of Influence -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- Annex Summary "In recent years, donor governments and international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank have developed a number of frameworks and tools to assess governance, conflict, and fragility. This report argues that there are multiple, and often contradictory, objectives underlying the development and use of such assessment tools. Underpinning this multiplicity of objectives are deep assumptions, many of which remain unstated. Different agencies tend to define the problem through their own institutional lens, and the assessment tools they create reflect these biases. As the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Development Assistant Committee's (OECD-DAC's) work on governance assessments has pointed out, assumptions underlying governance assessment methodologies are usually not explicit, but tend to measure governance against existing norms in OECD countries. Similarly, the different approaches to conflict assessment adopted by major bilateral and multilateral actors demonstrate conceptual and intellectual differences in their understanding of the nature of conflict; the same may be said for various donors' approaches to assessing state fragility"--Publisher's description Notes "June 1, 2010." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (Center on International Cooperation, viewed July 22, 2014) Subject Conflict management -- International cooperation -- 21st century Political stability -- Developing countries -- Evaluation -- 21st century Nation-building -- Developing countries -- Evaluation -- 21st century Human security -- Developing countries -- Evaluation -- 21st century Civil society -- Developing countries -- Evaluation -- 21st century Security, International -- 21st century World politics -- 2005-2015. Conflict management -- International cooperation. Political stability -- Evaluation. Security, International. World politics. Developing countries. Form Electronic book Author International Peace Institute, issuing body. Center on International Cooperation (New York University), issuing body.

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