How Change Happens: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Human Development.

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2007
Document Type:
Research Paper
Theme:
Governance and Conflict
Authors:
Krznaric, R.

Abstract

This report presents an overview of approaches used to explain social change from a wide range of academic perspectives, from history, politics and economics to psychology and geography. These are summarised in a table, which presents a series of questions as a flexible tool for thinking about how change happens. The author argues that current development thinking uses only a narrow range of approaches to change and the result is that most development strategies are limited. This paper was presented at 'Conflict Prevention and Peaceful Development: Policies to Reduce Inequality and Exclusion', a CRISE policy conference held on July 9-10, 2007 at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.

Citation

Oxfam Research Reports, ISBN 978 0 85598 597 4, 59 pp.

How Change Happens: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Human Development.

Published 1 January 2007
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