Violence impedes human freedom to live safely and securely, and can sustain poverty traps in many communities. A key challenge for academics, policy makers and practitioners working broadly in ...programs aimed at poverty alleviation, including violence prevention, is the lack of reliable and comparable data on the incidence and nature of violence. This paper proposes a household survey module for a multi-dimensional poverty questionnaire which can be used to complement the available data on the incidence of violence against property and the person, as well as perceptions of security and safety. Violence and poverty are inextricably linked, although the direction of causality is contested if not circular. The module uses standardised definitions which are clear, can be translated cross-culturally and clearly disaggregate different types of interpersonal violence, thereby bridging the crime-conflict nexus.
Contesting Development Patrick Barron; Rachael Diprose; Michael Woolcock
Contesting Development,
02/2011
Book Chapter
This book has focused on the local-level dynamics of social change and conflict that are part of the larger processes of development. These dynamics are accentuated by, and can often be most clearly ...observed by studying, initiatives such as development projects that explicitly seek to intensify the scale and pace of those processes, often for targeted groups (such as the poor). In this sense, development is “history in a hurry.” This book has explored these processes through an examination of the conflict-development nexus in Indonesia, in particular, via a detailed examination of the Kecamatan Development Program, a project designed largely
In Chapter 5 we found that in most cases KDP had little direct effect on conflict management. There are other ways, however, in which the program may lead to changes in the level and impacts of local ...conflicts and in how they are managed when they arise. This chapter examines three ways in which KDP mayindirectlyimpact conflict management capacity: through changing social structures, forms of behavior, and norms and perceptions in the localities where it works.
Development projects such as KDP aim, albeit implicitly and in often unacknowledged ways, to reshape inter- and intragroup and state-society relations. The
