Social capital building as capacity for postconflict development: the UNDP in Mozambique and Rwanda. : An article from: Global Governance [HTML]

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Title: Social capital building as capacity for postconflict development: the UNDP in Mozambique and Rwanda.
Author: Ben K. Fred-Mensah
Publication: Global Governance (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Page: 437(21)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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In this article, I intend to conceptualize two postconflict reconstruction projects supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as efforts in social capital development in postconflict situations. I specifically focus on the UNDP's support for the creation of focus groups within the Mozambican government and for the Rwandan government's reorganization of its policing system as reform measures in the countries' state systems. I argue that by creating a focus group in Mozambique, which provides an avenue for collective decisionmaking that involves previously fighting factions, and by streamlining the police service in Rwanda, which makes it easier to predict and monitor the operations of the country's police force, the UNDP is not only assisting these countries to...


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