Events:

Seminar series - this week's seminar considers the political situation in Uganda under Museveni  More

Upcoming event: Book launch for 'Empires of Mud' and 'Decoding the New Taliban' on 2 December.

Podcasts of recent events on Sudan available here.

Publications:

Beyond Conflict: a new report on reconfiguring approaches to the regional trade in minerals from Eastern DRC

Fragile states: a new topic guide by GSDRC in collaboration with CSRC associates

Recent Working Papers -

Urban Politics, Conspiracy and Reform in Nampula, Mozambique

IGAD's contribution to regional security in the Horn of Africa

'Poor state performance' indexes - a new evaluation

Kinshasa - a paper on the Congolese elite and the fragmented city

Security in Africa - papers on the African Union and on Sub-regional organisations

Traditional leaders in South Africa - a study of Greater Durban

Regional security arrangements - a comparison of ASEAN, SCO and AU

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

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

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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