CPAID: The Centre for Public Authority and International Development

CPAID将解决困扰外部世界参与治理脆弱、受冲突影响、边缘化和贫困人口的关键问题。在这些地方，包容性增长被证明是难以实现的。我们提出一个不同的出发点。CPAID并不期待向决策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普通人的日常生活现实。在这些地方，这种增长的基础比国家机构更广泛和更普遍。通过公共当局的透镜，国际发展合作伙伴关系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，以及实际存在的包容性增长形式是否可以由发展实践者促进。只有对政治、经济和社会因素如何相互作用进行历史性、背景性和跨学科的分析，才能充分理解受冲突影响地区的“真实的治理”。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，这些模式实际上将为未来的包容性增长提供或加强坚实的基础，国际发展伙伴关系将探讨公共权力的形式如何塑造一系列相互关联的全球挑战，这些挑战对国际发展和包容性增长既构成风险，也构成机遇：即提供安全和正义;移徙、流离失所和地方暴力局势;全球健康威胁;资源控制和分配;以及媒体和信息技术的进步。非洲发展合作伙伴关系将填补非洲大片地区实地现实的严重证据空白，这些现实目前影响到包括欧洲在内的其他区域。该协会的团队包括乌干达、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当局。我们的主要重点是公共权力的感知，理解和研究地点的人口经历。过去十年左右的研究已经挑战了“失败国家”话语中所体现的普遍假设，即在没有西方式治理机构的情况下，脆弱和受冲突影响的社会崩溃或挣扎。CPAID将进行研究，帮助我们了解公共权力机构实际运作的各种方式。发展政策迫切需要这种办法。传统的冲突和冲突后国家建设进程，以韦伯的国家概念为基础，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“复原力思维”的兴起，捐助者越来越多地承认世界是一个“极端不确定性”的地方，并用国际发展部的话说，他们决心“拥抱不确定性，将其视为一个机会，以...恢复得更好。这就形成了一个新的、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的背景下进行，以提供互联网连接。未来五年将见证前所未有的努力，以连接非洲偏远和边境地区目前无法接入互联网的数百万人。研究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。

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.