Context-Sensitive Development How International NGOs Operate in Myanmar

Name: Context-Sensitive Development How International NGOs Operate in Myanmar
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ISBN: 9781565495234

ISBN-10: 1565495233

ISBN-13: 9781565495234

Edition: 2012

Authors: Anthony Ware

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Development is a difficult endeavor in any environment, much more so in places such as Myanmar with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, international sanctions, and political repression and human rights violations with concomitant conflicts within development organizations over norms and policies. This book examines how to effect successful development interventions in Myanmar. The author points out how practitioners have questioned universal economic prescriptions for development in ways that they have not questioned the normative foundations behind their work. Ware does not argue for a facile moral relativism; he sees Myanmar as an egregious violator of human rights, but he does call…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Tables and Figures


Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Preface


Prologue: Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Names and Political Orientation



The Problem and Theory



Myanmar and Context-Sensitivity in Development



Context-Sensitive Development Theory



Myanmar: A Historically Informed Analysis of Context



Burmese Days: Antecedents of the Sociopolitical Context



Myanmar Times: Contemporary Economic and Sociopolitical Context



Context-Sensitivity in INGO Development Practice



Doing Context-Sensitive Development in Communities



Context-Sensitivity in Stakeholder Relations



Dancing With the Devil but Not Holding Hands: Negotiating the Restricted Humanitarian Space



Conclusions and Recommendations


Afterword


Glossary of Myanmar Terms


List of Interview Participants


References


Index