From Kanun to Capacity Building: “The Internationals”, Civil Society Development and Security in the Balkans.
Author
Editor
- Peter Siani-Davies
Summary, in English
This paper provides an anthropological definition of "security" to discuss the nature of international intervention in the Balkans. Using examples from the author's development work in Albania, it describes how the international project implementation carried on by development NGOs interacts with local customary laws such as the Albanian 'kanun'. Projectization has created new project elites, but the fundamental problems of security and uncertainty will not be solved by creating new Western style NGOs.
Department/s
Publishing year
2003
Language
English
Pages
136-157
Publication/Series
International Intervention in the Balkans since 1995
Full text
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Social Anthropology
Keywords
- NGOs
- civil society
- security
- Balkans
- Albania
- development
- capacity building
- social anthropology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 0415298342