INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................................

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PART I: OBJECTIVES, RESEARCH ISSUES AND ANTICIPATED RESULTS FROM THE
OUTSET AND AS STATED IN THE ORIGINAL RESEARCH
DESIGN..............................................................................................................................4
Interdependency between conflict-prone social, political, economic conditions and violent/non
violent conflict
processing.........................................................................................................................................4
Hybrid institutional arrangements (official, informal, customary, Soviet heritage)
matter..........................5 State-building and conflict processing from the local point of
view..............................................................6 PART II: TEACHING, RESEARCH METHODS AND
PROCEEDINGS............................................................................8 Phase I - April-August 2003:
Theoretical background; research proposal development; preparation and training of empirical
research methods.........................................................................................................8 Phase II
August/September 2003 to August/September 2004: main fieldwork...........................................9
Third Phase October 2004 to October 2005: Refining and writing up the
results...................................10 PART III: FINDINGS FROM THE FIELD AND IMPACT ON
THEORETICAL FOCUS OF THE PROJECT...........................12 State in process: statehood and
governance................................................................................................12 Framework conditions for
local modes of governance: the political economy of hybrid statehood (modes of control; modes
of financing; flow of resources)..........................................................................................14
Identification of relevant actors within institutional arrangements of hybrid statehood; collective
action &
mobilisation.................................................................................................................................................15
Functional competition and redundancy: hybrid institutional
arrangements.............................................16 Conflict as heuristic tool to capture adaptive capacities
of institutional arrangements.............................19 PART IV: CONSEQUENCES FOR FURTHER
ORGANISATION OF THE PROJECT........................................................21
Methodology................................................................................................................................................21
Afghan Badakhshan: contested statehood, highly dynamic institution-building in
action..........................22 Follow ups next year: team and local
partners...........................................................................................22 Using and enhancing
connections with institution-building practitioners..................................................22
ADMINISTRATIVE
ISSUES...................................................................................................................................24 Finances
to date and future.........................................................................................................................24
Team............................................................................................................................................................24
Project related
outputs................................................................................................................................25 2