Lives Amid Violence | Mareike Schomerus

Sep 7, 2023 · 57m 34s
Lives Amid Violence | Mareike Schomerus
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What mental models underpin international development? And how do they hold back actors working in conflict-affected countries? In this episode, we speak with https://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/mareike-schomerus-0, author of Lives Amid Violence and...

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What mental models underpin international development? And how do they hold back actors working in conflict-affected countries? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Mareike Schomerus, author of Lives Amid Violence and Vice President of the Busara Center, one of the first behavioral science research labs in the Global South. Drawing from ten years of research by the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, she argues that the international development sector, in its current form, often fails to take into account the experiences and perspectives of people living in contexts of violence and conflict and offers a new language for transforming development in the wake of conflict. We talk about the colonialist thinking underpins international development, how the sector's unflinching faith in causality creates blind spots for practitioners, and what it means to envision this space anew.

Learn more about Lives Amid Violence and read it here.

This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at ThePearsonInstitute.org

Access the transcript here.

Podcast Production Credits:

Interviewing: Julia Higgins, Reema Saleh, and Umama Zillur
Editing: Nishita Karun
Production: Reema Saleh
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