Mining and Conflict in Eastern DR Congo -  a new report that challenges current thinking

Taxation - an update on the Centre's work

Podcast of the Centre's debate on Eastern DRCongo

Recent Publications:

A Working Paper on Afghanistan's Hizb-e Wahdat-e Islami party

Evaluating sources for cross-national research - a case study of military interventions

Pakistan's military coups - a CSRC Occasional Paper considers the economic factors

Bringing Politics back in - a new Occasional Paper challenges current thinking on economic initiatives to tackle conflict

Do EWR Mechanisms enhance the effectiveness of regional organisations? - new Working Paper

Stupid and Expensive? - a paper examining the costs-of-violence literature

The Tormented Triangle - a paper on the regionalisation of conflict in Sudan, Chad and CAR

The African Standby Force - a discussion paper by Brig. Gen. Jeffery Marshall

Civil War and State Reconstruction in Tajikistan an analytical narrative by Anna Matveeva

Security and Politics in Three Colombian Cities - a paper by the CSRC's Colombian partners at Universidad Nacional de Bogota

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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

 

 

 

 

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

 

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