PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 9 Participatory methods: precipitating or avoiding conflict?

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 9 Participatory methods: precipitating or avoiding conflict? Parmesh Shah and Meera Kaul Shah Introduction us PRA is a part of a long term complex process of engagement involving negotiations, Some of the articles appearing in this issue of bargaining, dialogue and conflict resolution. Unfortunately most writing on these issues is PLA Notes and elsewhere indicate that the use of PRA methodology does not provide an done by Western academics who use PRA adequate understanding of the social relations, methods for a very short time, mainly during and especially the tensions between various appraisals (5 to 7 days), and who are generally social groups in a community. As PRA tries to absent when negotiation and bargaining takes build consensus in the community at the end of place and conflicts surface. Also, most the appraisal process, the complexity of social researchers are more interested in extracting relationships, which can inhibit community information and have short processes of action and articulation of joint priorities and engagement. For most of these people, the subsequently joint action, are said to be production of a glossy report is sufficient to overlooked, creating a false sense of a build their careers. ...