From Forman and Patrick's ( Center for International Cooperation) "Responding to...gaps in current knowledge, the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and the Social Science Research Council in September 1997 convened an international group of scholars and practitioners to conduct a comparative study of aid delivery to post-conflict societies. Employing a common methodology, teams of researchers from donor and recipient states spent eighteen months investigating the experiences of six El Salvador, Mozambique, Cambodia, the West Bank and Gaza, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and South Africa. This volume contains their findings." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)