A5000553507- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- South African History and Culture
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Cambodian History and Society
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- International Development and Aid
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Global Security and Public Health
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Community Health and Development
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
- Health and Conflict Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
Robert Gordon University
2015-2023
Goldsmiths University of London
2009-2020
University of Aberdeen
2012
ABSTRACT Non‐Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are increasingly challenged to demonstrate accountability and relevance, with reporting, monitoring evaluation arguably having become development activities in their own right. Drawing on interviews observation research, this article examines the impact of intensified (M&E) requirements a number South African NGOs. M&E — types expertise, vocabularies practices it gives rise is an important area that usually neglected study NGOs but...
Researchers in peace and conflict studies have rarely explicitly engaged with time temporality. This article develops a temporal analysis of victimhood mature posttransition society, drawing on qualitative research victims/survivors gross human rights violations South Africa. Two decades after the democratic transition, there is prevalent understanding that it finally for victims to “move on.” In contrast supposed linear temporality processes, however, consequences past violence continue...
While previous literature has examined time discourses in social work and demonstrated that is predicated on linear understandings of time, one area received little theoretical empirical attention the what effects various temporalities exert lifeworld workers how they shape their working days. This paper draws semi-structured interviews with British employs an abductive approach to data analysis. By analysing participants’ experiences work, article identifies two exist practice, paperwork...
Abstract This paper explores the maintenance of livelihoods under climate, environmental, and economic development pressures, through case Thang Binh District in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. Within widespread recognition need to link sustainable approaches with climate change adaptation, there is growing awareness importance people-centered which keep diverse experience, capabilities, knowledges most vulnerable at heart thinking. In response, this conditions for changes modes a study area...
This paper reports on interview data amongst victims of conflict and organised violence.Despite their victimhood, they evince a level forgivingness, civility tolerance that constructs in the very acts atrocity portend its demise, form humanitarianism which enables to be moral beacons post-conflict societies otherwise are largely devoid any or sacred canopy.Data cover Sri Lanka, South Africa Northern Ireland.The theoretical contribution is proffer view emerging out best understood as social...
This article examines the widespread notion that post‐apartheid democracy can be deepened and civil society strengthened by NGO activities in sphere of public debate participation. I focus on a number interrelated processes which argue may compromise NGOs' ability to expand sphere: first, donors' overwhelming NGOs as sole representative contribute homogenous institutionalised sphere; second, tendency for drawn into partnerships with government bodies corporate sponsors casts doubt their open...
Despite the attention to gender and conflict in empirical positivist peace research, interest local agency recent peacebuilding literature, women's understandings lived experiences of are not necessarily well accounted for. This article, drawing on interviews, focus groups observation research with 57 female victims/survivors post-election violence Kenya, provides an ethnographic study largely informal activities, ranging from mediation dialogue economic empowerment. It analyses...
This article explores why landscape is a crucial element in researching the relationship between environment and well-being. The main point we make that human social agents are embedded particular landscapes, it landscapes environmental changes experienced, which can have implications for We draw from variety of perspectives on understands fundamental creative relation humans recent developments neo-materialism theorising. Landscape understood here as an assemblage different forms matter,...
This study examines how residents of Kibera, an multi-ethnic informal settlement and opposition stronghold in Nairobi, Kenya, understood negotiated political instability the run up to, during, contested elections 2017. Much scholarship on election violence has been gender-blind, ignoring ways which gender roles shape experiences but also nature conflict. When women's during conflict war are considered, it is typically relation to sexual violence. By contrast, our gendered across multiple...
We investigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence service providers in rural and island communities North East Scotland Orkney. Domestic abuse areas is typically underestimated might be more hidden due to stigma, a surveillance culture, practical difficulties accessing services. The geographical challenges remote relation are, some extent, further amplified small locations, given population sizes, terrain separation by sea. In such communities, visits organisation’s...
Abstract COVID-19 exacerbated challenges that already existed in the policing of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) remote and rural northern Scotland. Victims’ direct access to police third-sector organisations was impeded by social distancing while pandemic extant issues relating staffing, particularly relation female officers. On positive side, flexibility characterised continued, officers worked together support victims. The move videoconferencing hailed as a an area where travel meetings or...
This article examines transitional justice in Kenya, drawing on interviews and focus groups with survivors of the post-election violence 2007–2008. Focusing particularly experiences women internally displaced persons (IDPs), it explores how understood negotiated waiting for reparations analyses effects temporal uncertainty (around timing scope) inequality (in relation to times). Uncertainty contributed survivors' senses passivity exacerbated their feelings marginalisation. To delay an...
Empowerment is an often used concept and the work of Paulo Freire has helped to define application outcomes approaches. The researchers visited Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, during periods political activity which had previously resulted violence. Community members identified strategies employed attempt curtail heightened risk. These factors were analysed evaluate whether empowerment, as espoused by Freire, was still relevant community development work. multi-faceted highlighted that they...