Introduction to Special Issue: Localization and the aid industry
This special issue explores why international donors and organizations struggle to implement localization in conflict-affected areas, despite widespread recognition of […]
Flipping the power dynamics in measurement and evaluation: International aid and the potential for a grounded accountability model
This article addresses the overlooked barrier of accountability in the localization of international aid and development. It argues that the
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining ‘Community in Participatory Research
In the context of a national movement to defund police departments, many American cities are starting to reimagine public safety,
The data myth: interrogating the evidence base for evidence-based peacebuilding
This article interrogates three claims made in relation to the use of data in relation to peace. That more data, faster data, and impartial data will
The Paradox of Justice: From Transitional to Everyday Justice
Transitional justice lacks a coherent framework for articulating the relationship between distributive and corrective justice. Academic debates remain largely normative,
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)
Professor Sally Engle Merry’s thought-provoking scholarship has reached far beyond her disciplinary boundaries in anthropology and influenced our own work
Images and indicators: Mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour
Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research
After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences
This article is interested in aid preferences, or what people desire in terms of aid, in a post-conflict and post