Topic 3

Theme 3: Contemporary Debates on International Economic Order and Development Aid: Impacts on Human Rights and Conflicts

16-18 April, 2013

Learning Objective(s):

To understand the linkages between development aid on the one hand and its actual impacts on the other; to analyse the successes and failures of development aid in the context of international cooperation for development; to understand and analyse the emergence of ‘Aid for Trade’ within the development aid paradigm; to understand the nexus between the global economic order, human rights and conflicts; and to explore avenues for proper development cooperation practice in the context of conflicts and human rights.

Required Readings:

1. Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid, London: Allen Lane, Ch 3 and 4 (2009)
2. Ballentine, Karen “Beyond Greed and Grievance: Reconsidering the Economic Dynamics of Armed Conflict” In: Karen Ballentine, Jake Sherman (Eds). The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance, (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003), Chapter 10: pp. 259-283.
3. Michelle Parlevliet, “Connecting Human Rights and Conflict Transformation: Guidance for Development Practitioners”, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 2011.

 Optional Readings:

1. William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden, New York: The Penguin Press (2006); Ch 2
2. South Centre, “Aid for Trade”, Trade Policy Brief, November, 2005
3. Mark Langan and James Scott, “The False Promise of Aid for Trade”, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester (2011).
4. Regine Andersen, “How Multilateral Development Assistance Triggered the Conflict in Rwanda”, Third World Quarterly Vol. 21 (2000) Issue 3, pp. 441-456.

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