Why ‘going with the grain’ is harder for donors than is often appreciated

This is a talk I gave at the New Perspectives on Conflict and Security Second Annual Conference on 'Civil War and the State-building Challenge', held at the University of Birmingham on the 17th and 18th September 2012, sponsored by the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation & Security (ICCS). My talk was in the closing roundtable on 'Practitioner Perspectives: Government, …