Conflict-related Development Analysis Program:
Occupied Palestinian Territory, Conflict Causes and Development Initiatives – A Structural Analysis
by Dr. Guy Burton (Researcher at the Centre for Development Studies at BirZeit University, Ramallah, West Bank)
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 13:00 – 15:00 hrs
Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, Lecture Room 4
1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 5 (Campus), 1st Floor
Since the end of the Cold War, development practitioners have noted the failure of traditional developmental approaches to war and conflict. The UNDP has promoted conflict-related development analysis (CDA) as a way of understanding the linkages between conflict and development better and to increase the impact of development on conflict. The case of the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) is applied to the CDA framework: (1) analysis of the conflict (i.e. background situation, causes and actors), (2) analysis of current responses (development measures, formal peace processes) and (3) identification of ways forward. The lecture includes (1) empirical findings of Palestinian views towards development, conflict and international financial assistance which are obtained through a public opinion survey, in-depth interviews with development stakeholders and focus groups, (2) details of CDA’s limitations in the OPT case and (3) recommendations for future development.
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