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Patrick Barron; Rachael Diprose; Michael Woolcock
Contesting Development, 02/2011Book Chapter
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
