Contesting Development Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia Patrick Barron, Rachael Diprose, Michael Woolcock

This pathbreaking book analyzes a highly successful participatory development program in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.

Patrick Barron, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, was for seven years the manager of World Bank's Conflict and Development programme in Indonesia. Rachael Diprose, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, has worked in development research, policy, and programming around the world. Michael Woolcock is senior social scientist, Development Research Group, World Bank.

Patrick Barron, Michael Woolcock, and Rachel Diprose, Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflicts Dynamics in Indonesia is co-winner of the 2012 ASA Sociology of Development Section Faculty Book Award--Sociology of Development Section Faculty Book Award co-winner"American Sociological Association" (06/19/2012)