NGOs, IGOs, and the Network Mechanisms of Post-Conflict Global Governance in Microfinance

Partnerships between international organizations and NGOs are central to delivering services in post-conflict settings. This book examines how such partnerships and policy networks comprising large international organizations and NGOs generate policies to heal the wounds of war-torn communities and build institutions of the post-conflict state for long-term governance. Exploring the international community’s application of microfinance in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book follows how these policies were subsequently transferred to and modified for Kosovo and Afghanistan. Drawing on multiple, varied cases this book offers a new framework of policy analysis in post-conflict zones, and bridges global policy studies with conflict resolution.

Anna Ohanyan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 2004. She has served as a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2002-2004) and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007). Her research interests include transnational politics, international organizations and global public policy, ethnicity and international conflict management. Her articles have appeared in International Studies Perspectives, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Peace and Change, Conflict, Security and Development and Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, among others. Prof. Ohanyan has served as a consultant for numerous organizations such as the United Nations Foundation, the World Bank, the National Intelligence Council Project at the University of Maryland, the Carter Center, USAID, and the Alliance for Conflict Transformation. Her work has taken her across the globe, from Northern Ireland, to the Balkans to the former Soviet Union.