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Comment on Conflict minerals and Kony2012 by THERE’S GOLD IN THEM (BLOODY) HILLS By Kheith Snow Harmon - KIMPA VITA PRESS & PUBLISHERS

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:48:37 +0000

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Comment on What to read on Burundi by Rachel Strohm

Rachel Strohm — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:48:14 +0000

Hi Tomas – thanks for your comment! I’ll definitely check out the authors you suggest.

Comment on What to read on Burundi by tomas van acker

tomas van acker — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:22:24 +0000

Hi
interesting blog. It looks like you’ve pretty much got the essentials on Burundi covered. It is rather underresearched – especially the micro level – but there’s some more to be found (also in English). You could look at Stef Vandeginste (Transitional justice and consociationalism), Dominik Kohlhagen (land & law), Bert Ingelaere (transitional justice from an anthropoligical perspective). I also found the works on precolonial history of Catherine and David Newbury quite interesting.
Tomas Van Acker

Comment on Graduate school & the development industry by Hapto McGee (haptomcgee) | Pearltrees

Hapto McGee (haptomcgee) | Pearltrees — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:39:36 +0000

[...] Graduate school & the development industry « Rachel Strohm This doesn’t obviate my concern that many other aspects of one’s SAIS education prepare one for working in the development industry, rather than trying to understand the political and historical contexts in which one’s actions occur and work in humility and partnership towards a development-oriented end. We’re taught about the evolution of Western thought on development; we’re never taught about what life was like for ordinary people in the days of import-substitution industrialization, or during the reign of the Washington Consensus. [...]

Comment on Book review: More Than Good Intentions by a simple explanation of why so many economists are so often surprised (by “trends” AKA “fat tails”) « JRFibonacci's blog: partnering with reality

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:42:49 +0000

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Comment on Typologies of political dispute by does advocacy work? (part 1) « Securing Rights

does advocacy work? (part 1) « Securing Rights — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:15:38 +0000

[...] play, our perceptions of international human rights advocacy require a bit of disaggregation. In a recent post on typologies of political violence, Rachel Strohm used a chart display to outline the interaction between government and opposition [...]

Comment on Follow-up to typologies of political dispute by Rachel Strohm

Rachel Strohm — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:12:48 +0000

Hey Jacob! Thanks for your comment – you make an good point. It’s not that the information isn’t out there; more that it sounds like a large project to assemble it. : ) Maybe one day!

Comment on Follow-up to typologies of political dispute by Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:31:59 +0000

“…there’s too much of a conceptual muddle about these different categories of dispute, and I don’t feel like I have enough information to clean it up.”

You can clean it! …in pieces.

There are a lot of questions here that could be answered independently, even if they never amount to a coherent “framework.”

E.g. this is a good question: ” Do protesting civilians often go off to create or join militias?” How about vice versa? These are empirical and answerable questions.

Comment on Typologies of political dispute by Follow-up to typologies of political dispute « Rachel Strohm

Follow-up to typologies of political dispute « Rachel Strohm — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:56:43 +0000

[...] got some great responses to my last post about typologies of political dispute, which I’ll list and respond to in turn. On the [...]

Comment on Typologies of political dispute by Rachel Strohm

Rachel Strohm — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:57:12 +0000

Thanks for your comment and the link to Regan & Norton, Jay! I definitely agree that it’s a dynamic and interactive process, and realize that I didn’t explain how that would connect to a framework of typologies in the post. Writing a follow-up post now that will incorporate this point.