Peace Security and Development Network - Research Protocol for conducting fieldwork

This protocol provides basic guidance on the focus, set up and execution of the fieldwork associated with the case studies to be done in four different countries under the research on „Multiple Stakeholder Processes, basic services and state institutions‟. These countries include: Nepal, the Palestinian Territories, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi. The focus on the research lies on contexts characterized by conflict or political instability.

It is important to acknowledge that these „indicators‟ bear in itself a negative connotation since they are usually determined by „negative‟ factors in a country‟s context (e.g. corruption, weak administrative systems, conflict, absence of capacities).

Network for Peace, Security and Development 2010

This publication is an outcome of the in 2008 established ‘Network for Peace, Security and Development’. The Network aims to support and encourage the sharing of expertise and cooperation between the different Dutch sectors and organisations involved in fragile states. The PSD Network is an initiative under the Schokland Agreements in 2007.