BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:"Whose Program? Institutional Partnerships and the Sociality of International Development Work."  \;Rebecca Peters\, Assistant Profes sor\, Public Administration and International Affairs. \;The pseudonym ous Good Governance in Angola Program (GGAP) was implemented in the post-w ar period by a consortium of three international NGOs working in partnersh ip with the Angolan government. Despite formal memoranda of understanding\ , staff members of this democratization intervention and its sponsoring bi lateral aid agencies understood the terms of their collaboration--and its history--quite differently. In this case\, discrepant perspectives on the program’s structure\, purpose\, and origins caused two parallel GGAP “cons ortia” to arise. The first held greater responsibility for the program’s p ractical implementation and was composed of Angolan nationals. The second had more decision making influence over the program\, and was repeatedly d issolved and reconstituted as expatriates came and went. This discussion u nravels the GGAP¹s history through examining these different staff experie nces and understandings of the program\, using the case to examine the glo bal rhetoric of development “Partnership” and the underlying inequalities of such unions’ sociality. \;Pizza is served. Follow us on Twitter at: PARCCatMaxwell\, tweet #ConvoInConflict. DTEND:20160428T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260309T082423Z DTSTART:20160428T163000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Conversations in Conflict Studies presents: Rebecca Peters UID:RFCALITEM639086270633133569 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Whose Program? Institutional Partnershi ps and the Sociality of International Development Work."  \;Reb ecca Peters\, Assistant Professor\, Public Administration and Internat ional Affairs. \;
The pseudonymous Good Governance in Angola Progra m (GGAP) was implemented in the post-war period by a consortium of three i nternational NGOs working in partnership with the Angolan government. Desp ite formal memoranda of understanding\, staff members of this democratizat ion intervention and its sponsoring bilateral aid agencies understood the terms of their collaboration--and its history--quite differently. In this case\, discrepant perspectives on the program’s structure\, purpose\, and origins caused two parallel GGAP “consortia” to arise. The first held grea ter responsibility for the program’s practical implementation and was comp osed of Angolan nationals. The second had more decision making influence o ver the program\, and was repeatedly dissolved and reconstituted as expatr iates came and went. This discussion unravels the GGAP¹s history through e xamining these different staff experiences and understandings of the progr am\, using the case to examine the global rhetoric of development “Partner ship” and the underlying inequalities of such unions’ sociality. \;
Pizza is served. Follow us on Twitter at: PARCCatMaxwell \, tweet #ConvoInConflict.

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