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movements and <strong>the</strong>y are even more vibrant in recent<br />
years in both countries. This development offers some<br />
break out of <strong>the</strong> gloomy trends in <strong>the</strong> fight for justice.<br />
In <strong>the</strong> midst of failures and successes <strong>the</strong>re are less<strong>on</strong>s<br />
to learn from. As I have argued al<strong>on</strong>g this article <strong>on</strong><br />
peasant social movements and <strong>the</strong>ir impact <strong>on</strong> how all<br />
parties resp<strong>on</strong>d and act <strong>on</strong>e to <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r for agrarian and<br />
rural reform in both countries, thus far, if a better step<br />
ahead is to be c<strong>on</strong>ducted, <strong>the</strong> alternative remedy lies in<br />
reading <strong>the</strong> line of opportunities, precisely because <strong>the</strong>y<br />
are fewer, for social changes, ei<strong>the</strong>r success or failure<br />
—both are important variati<strong>on</strong> for development. In<br />
this study I have endeavoured to draw some findings<br />
hopefully useful for future improvement.**<br />
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ENDNOTES<br />
“Pro-poor reform initiatives are likely to have broader<br />
and deeper instituti<strong>on</strong>al effects if <strong>the</strong>y are accompanied<br />
by strategic interacti<strong>on</strong>s between policymakers and civil<br />
society counterparts that help <strong>the</strong> latter to identify and<br />
overcome obstacles to change.” (Fox: 2004, 68)<br />
“The dynamics that drive <strong>the</strong> varying empowerment<br />
outcomes in <strong>the</strong> case of all four rural development<br />
programs can be described as a “sandwich strategy”.<br />
This involves three-way interacti<strong>on</strong> between regi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
grassroots rural social actors, pro-reform policymakers<br />
with actual influence over implementing agencies, and<br />
anti-reform regi<strong>on</strong>al elites embedded in both <strong>the</strong> state<br />
and society. With pressure from both above and below,<br />
<strong>the</strong> sandwich strategy creates political space and shifts<br />
Ref lecti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Human</strong> C<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>: Change, C<strong>on</strong>flict and Modernity<br />
The Work of <strong>the</strong> 2004/2005 API Fellows