Appreciative Inquiry: Its Potential for International Development Collaboration as a New Paradigm (Subject Review Article)

摘要

Exhaustively drawing from the existing literature, this paper examines appreciative in quiry's potential for international development collaboration. In particular, this paper finds that appreciative inquiry has potential to enhance Participatory Rural Appraisal, endogenous development, indigenous knowledge and innovation, and social capital toward more empowerment-oriented development. Appreciative inquiry is also valid from the cultural as well as ecological perspectives. However, development practitioners and actors need to be aware of and exercise a caution to the danger of power asymmetries in appreciative inquiry process. Appreciative inquiry does not replace the banking and problem-solving approaches, but rather complement them and compensatefor their shortcomings, thus improving international development efforts in a positive way. Finally, this paper identifies a need for further empirical research on appreciative inquiry in the context of international development toward making it a proven paradigm.