Locally Based Civil Conflict Transformation Between Partnership and Power Imbalance

Samantha Ruppel is director of the African-German Leadership Academy at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability and an associate researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Her research interests include civil conflict transformation, partnership and power imbalance in peace and development work, and critical peace studies. The regional focus of her work is West and East Africa.

• Introduction.- On Partnership and Power.- Conceptual Framework.- Civil Conflict Transformation and Civil Peace Service.- Appeal for the Use of Ethnographic Methods.- Inside Views from the ZFD - Empirical Results from Research in Germany.- Case Selection.- Partnership and Power Dynamics in Personnel Cooperation - Results of Field Research.- Conclusion.