
Make schools, not war? Donors' rewriting of the social contract in the DRC
- Author
- Tom De Herdt, Kristof Titeca (UGent) and Inge Wagemakers
- Organization
- Abstract
- The school being one of the most important faces of the state at the local level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, investment in education can play an important role in reconstructing the social contract between the population and the state after violent conflict. However, this is particularly difficult since the state has largely retreated from the education sector since the 1980s, and education is now organised through public-private partnerships with religious networks. Moreover, schools have been turned into tax units, in response to the retreat of the state and the declining wages of school administrators. This has had a clear effect on donor interventions, which, instead of changing the current system, have become part of existing configurations and led to an expansion of the current system.
- Keywords
- Democratic Republic of Congo, social contract, post-conflict reconstruction, Education
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4105782
- MLA
- De Herdt, Tom, et al. “Make Schools, Not War? Donors’ Rewriting of the Social Contract in the DRC.” DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, vol. 30, no. 6, 2012, pp. 681–701, doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00594.x.
- APA
- De Herdt, T., Titeca, K., & Wagemakers, I. (2012). Make schools, not war? Donors’ rewriting of the social contract in the DRC. DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, 30(6), 681–701. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00594.x
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- De Herdt, Tom, Kristof Titeca, and Inge Wagemakers. 2012. “Make Schools, Not War? Donors’ Rewriting of the Social Contract in the DRC.” DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW 30 (6): 681–701. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00594.x.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- De Herdt, Tom, Kristof Titeca, and Inge Wagemakers. 2012. “Make Schools, Not War? Donors’ Rewriting of the Social Contract in the DRC.” DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW 30 (6): 681–701. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00594.x.
- Vancouver
- 1.De Herdt T, Titeca K, Wagemakers I. Make schools, not war? Donors’ rewriting of the social contract in the DRC. DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW. 2012;30(6):681–701.
- IEEE
- [1]T. De Herdt, K. Titeca, and I. Wagemakers, “Make schools, not war? Donors’ rewriting of the social contract in the DRC,” DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 681–701, 2012.
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