Social Capital and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Burundi: The Limits of Community-based Reconstruction

Development and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 147-174

  Vervisch, Thomas ^a   Titeca, Kristof ^b   Vlassenroot, Koen ^c   Braeckman, Johan ^c  

^a VLIR UOS ^*  (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POST-WAR; RECONSTRUCTION; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

BURUNDI;

EID: 84872372493     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12008     Document Type: Article

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