Empowerment and Local Level Conflict Mediation in Indonesia : A Comparative Analysis of Concepts, Measures, and Project Efficacy

The notion of empowerment has been more often deductively claimed than carefully defined or inductively assessed by development scholars and practitioners alike. The authors define and assess empowerment through an in-depth examination of the extent to which a large community development project in rural Indonesia empowers participants (especially members of marginalized groups) through building their capacity to manage local conflict. Although the project induces conflict through its deployment of a competitive bidding process, the authors argue that, when well implemented, it can also enable otherwise unequal groups to more peacefully, equitably, and effectively engage one another. Using a mixed methods approach, they compare cases from otherwise similar treatment and control villages to shed light on the chief components of villagers' capacity to manage local conflict. They discuss the interdependencies of two major analytical realms-routines of inter-group collaboration, and sources of countervailing power-and their relation to local conflict processes and outcomes.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Gibson, Christopher, Woolcock, Michael
Language:	English
Published:	2005-09
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY, ACHIEVEMENT, BENEFICIARIES, CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, CIVIL SOCIETY, COLLABORATION, COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING, COLLECTIVE ACTION, COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING, COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, COMPETITIVE BIDDING, CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER, CONFLICT, CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, CONFLICT MEDIATION, CONFLICT PREVENTION, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CONFLICTS, CONSULTATIONS, CONTROL GROUPS, DECISION MAKING, DECISION MAKING INSTITUTIONS, DECISION MAKING PROCESSES, DECISION-MAKING, DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES, DECISIONMAKING, DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, ELITES, EQUALITY, FACILITATORS, FIELDWORK, FOCUS GROUP, FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS, GROUP MEMBERS, IDEAS, INNOVATIONS, INTEREST GROUP, INTEREST GROUPS, INTERVIEWS, LEADERSHIP, LOCAL CONFLICT, LOCAL KNOWLEDGE, MARGINALIZED GROUPS, MOTIVATION, NEGOTIATIONS, PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS, PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT, PEACE, PERCEPTION, PLAYING, POLITICAL PARTIES, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION EFFORTS, PROBLEM SOLVING, PROGRAM EVALUATION, PROGRAMS, PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, QUALITATIVE DATA, REASONING, RECOGNITION, RECONSTRUCTION, RESEARCH DESIGN, SCIENTISTS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SOCIALIZATION, SOCIETY, STAKEHOLDERS, THINKING, TRADE UNIONS, VILLAGE, VILLAGES, VIOLENCE, WAR,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/09/6275688/empowerment-local-level-conflict-mediation-indonesia-comparative-analysis-concepts-measures-project-efficacy https://hdl.handle.net/10986/8276
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