Ina Apapoe
2020

The research about the quality of dual governance in Suriname is in line with the discussion about the role traditional societies could or should play in governance, whether or not in cooperation with the state to develop their residential areas. The study focuses more specific on the role of good governance and related public values that are important in the governance of Ndyuka society by traditional and the modern state governance, in the logging, gold mining and education sector.

Therefore, this study answers the question of what role good governance plays in a dual governance structure, a theme which has gain very little attention in the scientific literature so far.

Ine Apapoe is a public administrator/ lecturer and head of the Public Administration Department (Policy & government) of the Department in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. During her career she has worked on several research projects in the field of (local) governance, traditional governance and livelihood, land rights issues, gender and gender mainstreaming. One of her focus areas is good governance and public values. Currently Ine is finishing her dissertation about the role of good governance in dual governance structures in Suriname, at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.