The Nuts and Bolts of Post-Conflict Capacity Building: Practicable Lessons from East Timor

'Capacity building' has become a ubiquitous term in the international peacebuilding community. While the need for capacity building in post-conflict contexts is widely accepted, discussions rarely venture into what it is in practical and operational terms, and how it ought to be done. This...

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Published inJournal of peacebuilding & development Vol. 2; no. 3; pp. 78 - 92
Main Authors Huang, Reyko, Harris, Joseph
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 2006
Sage Publications, Inc
Subjects
Citizen participation
Development strategies
East Timor
Indonesia
Institutional change
Local communities
Peace
Peace building
Post-conflict societies
Reconstruction
Referendum
State capacity
Sustainability
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Summary:'Capacity building' has become a ubiquitous term in the international peacebuilding community. While the need for capacity building in post-conflict contexts is widely accepted, discussions rarely venture into what it is in practical and operational terms, and how it ought to be done. This article 1 examines a major capacity building project in East Timor, focusing on capacity building as it occurs day to day and on the ground. Following a brief overview of the concept of capacity building, it identifies a number of key challenges that arise in initiatives in which internationals work directly with local actors to build their capacity. It then offers a set of concrete proposals, targeted at capacity builders and their managing institutions, for improved practice.
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ISSN:1542-3166
2165-7440
DOI:10.1080/15423166.2006.181516694598