CSRC Weekly Seminar Series:

Wednesday 21st  May - 'Are Effective Political Institutions an Essential Condition for Building Strong and Democratic States?

Forthcoming Events:

CSRC Public Lecture -
22nd May 18.30, LSE Old Theatre
Ashraf Ghani, Chancellor of Kabul University, and Clare Lockhart will talk about their new book 'Fixing Failed States'.  More.

Recent Publications:

Urban development in Managua is explored as a window into the political economy of post-revolutionary Nicaragua in this new Working Paper by Dennis Rodgers.

The prospects for post-conflict stability in Gulu, Uganda are discussed in this new Working Paper by Adam Branch

The role of capital cities in civil wars is explored in an Occasional Paper by Marika Landau-Wells

Dar es Salaam and Kampala are compared in this new Working Paper by Debby Bryceson on cities, ethnicity and the formation of nation states.

Regional organisations: The Centre has published a series of papers on the effectiveness of regional organisations for managing conflict in different parts of the world. Papers in this series include:

The European Union

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Comparing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

The Organisation of American States

The Regionalist Project in Central Asia

The Southern African Development Community

  

     Analytical narratives on state-

     making: The Centre has begun to

     publish a series of narratives based on

     its core case studies. Available so far

     are:
     Colombia
     DR Congo (English & French versions)
     Mozambique
     Rwanda
     Uganda

 

   Afghanistan: 'Koran, Kalashnikov

     and Laptop' - a new book by CSRC      

     Fellow Antonio Giustozzi explores the   

     Neo-Taliban insurgency.    

   (Hurst&Co:2007)

International Criminal Court - 'Courting Conflict' a Royal African Society essay collection edited by Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark, drawing on LSE events and co-funded by the CSRC.

Do inclusive elite bargains matter? A new Discussion Paper by Stefan Lindemann lays out a framework for understanding the causes of civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa.

South Africa's approach to the Darfur Conflict is explored in a new Working Paper by Laurie Nathan

The causes and consequences of state failure are examined in this critical review of the literature on failed states by Jonathan Di John.

 

 

 

Welcome to the Crisis State Research Centre

 

The Crisis States Research Centre (CSRC) is a leading centre of interdisciplinary research into processes of war, state collapse and reconstruction in fragile states. By identifying the ways in which war and conflict affect the future possibilities for state building, by distilling the lessons learnt from past experiences of state reconstruction and by analysing the impact of key international interventions, Centre research seeks to build academic knowledge, contribute to the development of theory, and inform current and future policy making.

 

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We are based within the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) of the London School of Economics and Political Science and funded by a grant from the UK Department for International Development.

 

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The urban services challenge of post-war reconstruction in Kabul (Photo: Jo Beall)

 

 

"Just as it should not take the collapse of a state for the international community to act, so it should not take a full-fledged crisis to attract the media spotlight. We should not, by our action or inaction, by what we report or do not, send a message - especially to those countries and people in need who struggle along in good faith - that only widespread bloodshed or total dysfunction will get them attention and help."
                                                                                     -- Kofi Annan