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by: Nat J. Colletta, Michelle L Cullen
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"Armed conflict within a state weakens its social fabric and
divides the population by undermining interpersonal and communal group
trust, destroying the norms and values that underlie cooperation and
collective action for the common good, and potentially perverting the
mobilization of social relationships away from cooperative development
and toward communal strife."
Violent Conflict and the Transformation of Social Capital is
an attempt to better understand the interactions between armed conflict
and social capital. The World Bank's Post-Conflict Unit (PCU)
undertook an investigation of four conflict-effected countries and
their changing social capital dynamics. The initial phase examined
Cambodia and Rwanda as case studies and the second phase studied social
capital transformations and conflict in Guatemala and Somalia.
Based on the four-country project, this book discusses: changes in
social capital due to conditions of conflict; the interaction between
social capital and conflict; and methods for civil society, government,
and international actors to nurture social capital for conflict
prevention rehabilitation and reconciliation measures. The types of
conflict experienced, definitions and indicators of social capital, and
study conclusions are compared. In the final section, recommendations
for social policy and practices emerging from these studies are
presented.
Violent Conflict and the Transformation of Social Capital is
an invaluable resource for policy and operational specialists working
in conflict-effected countries.
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