Politics, Agricultural Development, and Conflict Resolution An In-Depth Analysis of the Moyen Bani Programme in Mali

Using the Moyen Bani Programme as an example, External Assistance or External Interference gives an analysis of a grassroots conflict which, not foreseen at project design, lasted six years in Mali. This book provides the historical, economic, and political backgrounds that influenced the design and the conflict resolution. Concepts of perception, emotion, and identity explain the frames of the actors in the conflict. Notions including static and dynamic frames are used to explain their positions at different times during the conflict resolution. It explores the need of protagonists in rural conflicts to increase the political and economic resources they possess to achieve their goals. This need brought the intervention into the conflict of an international NGO. The book examines the '¬Swhys'¬ and '¬Swherefores'¬ of the intervention by the NGO.The effects of the conflict on the project results are examined. The book contributes to the development of paradigms for conflict resolution as well as for project planning and analysis.  

Chuku-Dinka R. Spencer studied at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom and at the University of Toulouse in France. A former research manager in the central Bank of Sierra Leone, he was for several years manager and then director of agriculture and rural development in the African Development Bank. In these capacities, he was directly involved with all stages of the project cycle and Bank Group operations in the agricultural and rural sectors all over Africa. His interests are in agricultural development and international non-governmental organizations and the role they play in rural development in Africa