englischThis book is about a frontier zone that has emerged in central Benin in the wake of rapidly growing internal migration and the settlement of farmers and herders. It provides an interpretative framework for the multiscale dimension of territoriality that helps us to understand the [...]

englischAn overview of the field of Islamic faith-based organisations (FBOs) in Tanzania and insights into selected organisations are the basis from which Sebastian Müller develops a novel approach to understanding NGOs. Focusing on the organisations’ central characteristics that have hardly been [...]

englischThis book examines variations in voter turnout at the sub-national level during general elections. It employs a case study–mixed methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative data to provide in-depth evidence for three systematically selected constituencies with varying levels of [...]

englischWho are the most important actors in the peacebuilding process in post-war Liberia? How do they interact in specific institutions on the ground and what are the factors behind the slow pace of the post-war reform process? This book, designed as a qualitative case study with a strong [...]

englisch‘Development’ is controversial—as both a concept and a practice. Can religious actors open up alternative approaches to change or make development cooperation more efficient?

In view of the promotion of values-based development in German development policy, this volume shows what and who [...]