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Steven Sampson

Steven Sampson

Professor emeritus

Steven Sampson

From Kanun to Capacity Building: “The Internationals”, Civil Society Development and Security in the Balkans.

Author

  • Steven Sampson

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

  • Social Anthropology

Publishing year

2003

Language

English

Pages

136-157

Publication/Series

International Intervention in the Balkans since 1995

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