CPAID: The Centre for Public Authority and International Development

CPAID将解决困扰外部世界参与脆弱、受冲突影响、边缘和贫困人口治理的关键问题。在这些地方，包容性增长被证明是难以捉摸的。我们提出了一个不同的起点。CPAID并没有期待向政策制定者熟悉的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的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为广泛和普遍。通过公共权威的视角，CPAID研究人员试图理解治理在这种情况下是如何发挥作用的，它实现了什么样的增长形式，以及发展实践者是否可以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历史的、背景的和跨学科的分析，才能充分理解受影响地区冲突中的“真正治理”。了解这些动态对于为新的和改进的国际发展模式提供信息至关重要，这些模式将为未来的包容性增长提供或加强坚实的基础。CPAID将探讨公共权力形式如何形成和被一系列环环相的全球挑战所塑造，这些挑战对国际发展和包容性增长既构成风险又构成机遇：即提供安全和正义；移徙、流离失所和地方性暴力局势；全球健康威胁；控制和分配资源；以及媒体和信息技术的进步。CPAID将填补目前影响到包括欧洲在内的其他区域的非洲大片地区实地情况的严重证据空白。CPAID团队包括乌干达、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权威机构。我们的主要重点是研究地点的人群所感知、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”话语中体现的普遍假设，即在缺乏西方式治理机构的情况下，脆弱和受冲突影响的社会会崩溃或挣扎。CPAID将进行研究，帮助我们了解实际形式的公共权力运作的各种方式。发展政策迫切需要这种方法。传统的冲突和冲突后的国家建设过程，以韦伯的国家概念为前提，是非常昂贵的，而且往往是不成功的，甚至可以说是适得其反。此外，随着“弹性思维”的兴起，捐助者越来越认识到世界是一个“完全不确定”的地方，并且用国际发展部的话说，他们决心“把不确定性作为一个机会来拥抱……反弹得更好。”这支持了一个新的但研究不足的议程，即寻找捐助者可以支持的更具成本效益和文化“嵌入”的治理形式。这项研究也将在大规模投资提供互联网连接的背景下进行。未来五年将见证前所未有的努力，使非洲偏远和边境地区数百万目前没有互联网接入的人联网。审视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，将为制定实现新形式包容性增长的政策提供关键切入点。

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.