Social Capital and development, A case study of post-conflictual Sri Lanka
(2011) FKVA21 20102Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Development has become a matter of security, and therefore development has a new strong role in the liberal peace-building, though not all theoretics agree to this hegemony. Social capital has become a global term when discussing development, and though the concept derived from a Western civil society, social capital cannot be ignored as a deeply rooted concept describing social structures of trust, networks and reciprocity in other contexts as well. I use the concept of social capital in the context of post-conflictual rural Sri Lanka to find out whether there is a coherence between social capital and development. I transfer the results of Dhammika Herath's field study to answer my research question. The study consist of six villages,... (More)
- Development has become a matter of security, and therefore development has a new strong role in the liberal peace-building, though not all theoretics agree to this hegemony. Social capital has become a global term when discussing development, and though the concept derived from a Western civil society, social capital cannot be ignored as a deeply rooted concept describing social structures of trust, networks and reciprocity in other contexts as well. I use the concept of social capital in the context of post-conflictual rural Sri Lanka to find out whether there is a coherence between social capital and development. I transfer the results of Dhammika Herath's field study to answer my research question. The study consist of six villages, three poor and three non-poor. Embedding two Muslim, two Tamil, two Sinhalese villages. Here he finds a significant coherence between bonding social capital and development, which is the conclusion of my assignment. (Less)
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- author
- Nielsen, Tea Marie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- FKVA21 20102
- year
- 2011
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- liberal peace, trust and networks, social capital, Development, radicalisation of development.
- language
- English
- id
- 1759734
- date added to LUP
- 2011-12-08 15:54:28
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- 2015-12-14 13:34:38
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