CPAID: The Centre for Public Authority and International Development

CPAID：公共权力和国际发展中心

• 批准号: ES/P008038/1
• 负责人: Tim Allen
• 金额: $ 554.95万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP008038%2F1
• 关键词: CPAID; Centre; Public; Authority; International

CPAID will address critical questions that have bedevilled the outside world's engagement with governance of fragile, conflict affected, marginal and impoverished populations. In these places inclusive growth has proved elusive. We propose a different starting point. Rather than anticipating transitions to accountable and capable Western government familiar to policymakers, CPAID prioritises the everyday lived realities of ordinary people in conflict-affected and fragile situations. In these places, the foundations of such growth are far more widespread and pervasive than state institutions. Through the lens of public authority, CPAID researchers seek to understand how governance actually functions in such circumstances, what forms of growth does this accomplish, and can actually existing forms of inclusive growth be promoted by development practitioners. Only a historically-informed, contextual and interdisciplinary analysis of how political, economic and social factors interact can achieve a full understanding of 'real governance' in conflict affected in places. Understanding these dynamics is critical to inform new and improved models of international development which will actually provide or enhance firm foundations for future inclusive growth.CPAID will explore how forms of public authority shape and are shaped by a set of interlocking global challenges that pose both risks and opportunities for international development and inclusive growth: namely, the provision of security and justice; migration, displacement and situations of endemic violence; global health threats; control and allocation of resources; and advances in media and information technologies. CPAID will fill a serious evidence gap about on the ground realities in large areas of Africa which currently affect other regions, including Europe. The CPAID team includes world- leading authorities on, Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Central African Republic. Our primary focus is on public authority as perceived, understood and experienced by populations in locations of research. Research over the last decade or so has challenged prevailing assumptions embodied in the 'failed states' discourse, namely that in the absence of western-style governance institutions, fragile and conflict affected societies collapse or flounder. CPAID will undertake research which can help us understand the various ways in which actual forms of public authority work. This approach is desperately needed in development policy. Conventional conflict and post-conflict state building processes, premised on Weberian notions of the state, are hugely expensive and too often unsuccessful or arguably even counter-productive. Moreover, with the rise of 'resilience thinking', donors are increasingly acknowledging that the world is a place of 'radical uncertainty', and determined, in the words of DFID to 'embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to... bounce back better'. This has underpinned a new, but under-researched agenda to find more cost-effective and culturally 'embedded' forms of governance that donors can support. This research will also take place in the context of massive investments to provide internet connectivity. The next five years will witness unprecedented efforts to connect millions of people who do not currently have internet access in Africa, in remote and borderland areas. Examining the role of new technologies, including social media, in reshaping public authorities and governments will provide crucial entry points to develop policies to achieve new forms of inclusive growth.

CPAID将解决困扰外界参与脆弱、受冲突影响的、边缘和贫困人口的治理的关键问题。事实证明，在这些地方，包容性增长难以实现。我们提出了一个不同的起点。CPAID不是期待政策制定者熟悉的向负责任和有能力的西方政府过渡，而是优先考虑受冲突影响和脆弱局势中普通人的日常生活现实。在这些地方，这种增长的基础远比国家机构更广泛和普遍。通过公共权威的视角，CPAID的研究人员试图了解治理在这种情况下实际上是如何运作的，这实现了什么形式的增长，以及发展从业者能否真正促进现有形式的包容性增长。只有对政治、经济和社会因素如何相互作用进行了解历史、背景和跨学科的分析，才能充分理解受影响地区冲突中的“真正治理”。了解这些动态对于了解新的和改进的国际发展模式至关重要，这些模式实际上将为未来的包容性增长提供或加强坚实的基础。CPAID将探讨公共权力的形式如何形成，并受到一系列相互关联的全球挑战的影响，这些全球挑战对国际发展和包容性增长既构成风险也构成机遇，这些挑战包括：提供安全和司法；移徙、流离失所和地方性暴力的情况；全球健康威胁；资源的控制和分配；以及媒体和信息技术的进步。CPAID将填补关于非洲大片地区目前影响到包括欧洲在内的其他区域的实地现实的严重证据空白。CPAID小组包括乌干达、肯尼亚、塞拉利昂、卢旺达、布隆迪、刚果民主共和国、南苏丹、苏丹、索马里、埃塞俄比亚和中非共和国的世界领先当局。我们的主要关注点是研究地点的民众所感知、理解和体验的公共权威。过去十年左右的研究挑战了“失败国家”论调中的主流假设，即在没有西方式治理机构的情况下，脆弱的、受冲突影响的社会会崩溃或挣扎。CPAID将进行研究，帮助我们了解公共权力的各种实际运作方式。这种方法在发展政策中是迫切需要的。传统的冲突和冲突后国家建设进程以韦伯式的国家观念为前提，代价高昂，而且往往不成功，甚至可以说是适得其反。此外，随着“弹性思维”的兴起，捐赠者越来越多地认识到，世界是一个充满“彻底不确定性”的地方，并决心用英国国际开发署的话说，“将不确定性视为……更好地反弹的机会”。这为一个新的、但研究不足的议程奠定了基础，该议程旨在寻找更具成本效益、并在文化上“嵌入”的、捐助者可以支持的治理形式。这项研究也将在为提供互联网连接而进行的大规模投资的背景下进行。未来五年将见证史无前例的努力，将非洲偏远和边境地区目前无法接入互联网的数百万人连接起来。审查包括社交媒体在内的新技术在重塑公共当局和政府方面的作用，将为制定政策以实现新形式的包容性增长提供关键的切入点。

项目成果

Promoting war trauma may not be a good idea

宣扬战争创伤可能不是一个好主意

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Allen T

'Quel est l'impact des mœurs burundaises sur l'éducation sexuelle des adolescents ?', Idjwi Series, blog, Africa at LSE

“Quel est limpact des mÅurs burundaises sur léducation sexuelle des Youths ?”，Idjwi 系列，博客，伦敦经济学院非洲

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Adolphe Bahimana

Uganda did not export Ebola to the DRC despite porous borders

尽管边境漏洞百出，乌干达并未向刚果民主共和国输出埃博拉病毒

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Akello, G

Misaligned Social Policy? Explaining the Origins and Limitations of Cash Transfers in Sudan

社会政策错位？

• DOI: 10.1111/dech.12784
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Development and Change
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Ali M

Football as reconciliation in the aftermath of war

足球是战后的和解

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Abonga,F