Reducing Poverty, Building Peace

5% Reducing Poverty, Building Peace Coralie Bryant Columbia University Christina Kappaz Millennia Consulting "Guided by a clear moral vision of the imperatives of addressing global poverty in order to reduce conflict, Bryant and Kappaz synthesize the latest thinking on development strategies, providing an accessible and grounded roadmap for practical steps to tackle some of the most complex and intractable challenges of our time." Dr. Michael Morfit Vice President, Development Alternatives, Inc. * Draws attention to the global nature of poverty and its link to conflict *Looks at poverty as a universal problelm, focusing on all nations both rich and poor *Multidisciplinary and wide-ranging, targeted for a broad audience, including NGOs, community and citizen based advocacy groups, students in international development programs and practitioners. Poverty and peace, and the relationships between them, are the central challenges for our times. Arguing that reducing poverty is not only possible, but can also build opportunities for peace, Coralie Bryant and Christina Kappaz help form the policy debate on the role of poverty reduction in international society. Oftentimes poverty is looked at only in specific countries, or is focused on developing countries. Reducing Poverty, Building Peace looks at poverty from both sides of the spectrum: domestic and global, rich and poor countries. The second half of the book focuses on what has been learned about effectiveness, especially through participatory development, and more commitment to implementation in order to gain results. This book combines a discussion of theoretical concepts with attention to policies, programs, and projects and the ways they might be designed and implemented to reduce poverty. Since there has been progress in reducing poverty, the challenge now is to learn from this experience about what works and to build political will to achieve this possible goal. PAPER June, 2005 / 312 pages Chapter 1- Poverty: The Global Problem Chapter 2- Access to Assets and the Role of Social Exclusion Chapter 3- Policies, Institutions, and Collective Action Chapter 4- Policies, Programs, or Projects? Chapter 5- Achieving Results: Strengthening Impllementation Chapter 6- Measuring Results, Learning, and Building Capacity Chapter 7- Policy Coherence: Reducing Poverty as Positive Peace Building Bibliography Index Coralie Bryant, Professor and Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, is also currently assisting L'Institut des etudes politques, (Sciences-Po) in Paris with the development of their Atelier in Development. Both Coralie and Christina worked with Marc Lindenberg on a previous Kumarian book, Going Global: Transforming International Relief and Development NGOs. Prior to Columbia University, she was a senior staff member of the World Bank, where, among other work, in 1990-1991 she was one of the central authors and negotiators for the World Bank's first policy paper on governance. Christina Kappaz is a consultant on economic development projects, currently based in Chicago and working with Millennia Consulting on a range of projects in the U.S. and throughout Latin America. Prior to beginning consulting work in 1996, Christina worked at the World Bank from 1991-1994, and at the Inter-American Development Bank from 1994-1996. Suggested Course Adoptions: International Studies / Humanitarian Aid / Peace Studies For more on this topic: Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding Details Price: $56.95 Qty Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20  Add to cart

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