"Armed conflict within a state weakens its social fabric and divides the population by undermining interpersonal and communal group trust, destroying the norms and values that underlie cooperation and collective action for the common good, and potentially perverting the mobilization of social relationships away from cooperative development and toward communal strife." 'Violent Conflict and the Transformation of Social Capital' is an attempt to better understand the interactions between armed conflict and social capital. The World Bank's Post-Conflict Unit (PCU) undertook an investigation of four conflict-effected countries and their changing social capital dynamics. The initial phase examined Cambodia and Rwanda as case studies and the second phase studied social capital transformations and conflict in Guatemala and Somalia. Based on the four-country project, this book discusses: changes in social capital due to conditions of conflict; the interaction between social capital and conflict; and methods for civil society, government, and international actors to nurture social capital for conflict prevention rehabilitation and reconciliation measures. The types of conflict experienced, definitions and indicators of social capital, and study conclusions are compared. In the final section, recommendations for social policy and practices emerging from these studies are presented. 'Violent Conflict and the Transformation of Social Capital' is an invaluable resource for policy and operational specialists working in conflict-effected countries.
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The Cold War, in which superpowers sought to maintain a global balance of power without resorting to nuclear arms, masked many local, intrastate conflicts by internationalizing them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vertical social capital, horizontal social capital, preconflict period, normative obstacles, bridging social capital, bonding social capital, social capital relations, intercommunity relations, civil society actors, social initiative, state penetration, organizational integrity, village leadership, development actors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The Cold War, in which superpowers sought to maintain a global balance of power without resorting to nuclear arms, masked many local, intrastate conflicts by internationalizing them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vertical social capital, horizontal social capital, preconflict period, normative obstacles, bridging social capital, bonding social capital, social capital relations, intercommunity relations, civil society actors, social initiative, state penetration, organizational integrity, village leadership, development actors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) by Nan Lin on 4 pages
- Social Capital (Key Ideas) by John Field in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Social Epidemiology by Lisa F. Berkman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen in Back Matter
- Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy by Ross J. Gittell in Back Matter
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- The G8, the United Nations and Conflict Prevention (G8 and Global Governance) by John J. Kirton on page 56, and Back Matter
- Promoting Social Cohesion Through Education: Case Studies And Tools for Using Textbooks (Wbi Learning Resources Series) by Eluned Roberts-Schweitzer on page 43
- Conflict Prevention: Path to Peace or Grand Illusion (Foundations Of Peace) by United Nations on page 22
- The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment by Christiaan Grootaert on page 307
- When States Fail: Causes and Consequences by Robert I. Rotberg on page 181
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