Trust in international relations – A useful tool?

Haukkala, Hiski; Vuorelma, Johanna; Wetering, Carina van de

doi:10.1080/21515581.2015.1008009

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“…Trust then refers to a psychological state within the trustor that is characterized by a willingness to accept vulnerability to harms that range from disappointment or mild embarrassment to direct, intentional, physical harm. It is for this reason that trust has been called a "social lubricant" (Dasgupta, 2000, p. 64) that facilitates relationships from the interpersonal (Rotter, 1971) to the international (Haukkala et al, 2015).…”

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Vulnerability, Trustworthiness, and Motivation as Emergent Themes in Cooperation With Community-Based Water Management in Southwestern Uganda

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Pearson

Namanya

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Discipline and context specific inquiries into the nature and dynamics of trust are beginning to give way to cross-boundary understandings which seek to outline its more consistent elements. Of particular note within these is an argument that trust is premised on vulnerability; that it has an important nexus with assessments of the ability, benevolence, and integrity of the trust target; and that it can also be motivated. The current work seeks to shed preliminary light on the applicability of this argument to a context in which it has not previously been examined: community-based water management in southwestern Uganda. Using a deductive, theory-driven analysis of focus group discussions with residents, we show that when our participants were simply asked to discuss their relationships with local management committees, vulnerability, ability, benevolence, and integrity consistently emerged as salient themes. Motivation, however, emerged as most salient for women. Further analysis suggests that this may have been because women are more directly involved in water provision, thereby increasing their perceived need for the resource. Our results, therefore, lend credence to the cross-boundary nature of this increasingly nuanced theoretical understanding of trust but also suggest some general guidance for improving community-based resource management efforts by providing preliminary evidence regarding the relative roles of trustworthiness and motivation.

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Section: Cross-boundary Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vulnerability, Trustworthiness, and Motivation as Emergent Themes in Cooperation With Community-Based Water Management in Southwestern Uganda

Hamm

Pearson

Namanya

et al. 2020

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…We have set the mission of JTR sufficiently broad so as to cover almost all possible articles related to trust across diverse contextual situations. For example, JTR has published three special issues, with the first devoted to the discipline of economics (guest edited by Möllering, 2014); the second devoted to the discipline of international relationships (guest edited by Haukkala, Vuorelma and van de Wetering, 2015), and the current special issue as the third one devoted to the topic of negotiation and repeated bargaining (guest edited by Kong, Lount and Olekalns, see Kong, Lount, Olekains & Ferrin, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%