The following researchers are currently working on Phase Two of the Crisis States Programme at the LSE. Links to partners in other countries can be found on the left.

Prof Jo Beall
Director of DESTIN, Reader in Development Studies
Southern Africa, South Asia, development policy & management, urban social development, urban governance, social exclusion, local responses to crisis and conflict

Dr Antonio Giustozzi
Research Fellow
Warlords, international relations, society and state-building in Afghanistan

Gabi Hesselbein
Research Fellow
International economy, development economics, state failure in sub-Saharan Africa, development as state making

Dr Anna Matveeva
Visiting Fellow
Conflict resolution, political and security analysis, post-Soviet Eurasia, Tajikistan

Laurie Nathan
Visiting Fellow
Conflict resolution, security theory, defence policy, civil-military relations, regional security in Africa
(currently based at the University of Cape Town)

Dr James Putzel
Director of the Crisis States Research Centre, Reader in Development Studies
Politics and development, governance, agricultural & rural development, agrarian reform, South East Asia, Philippines

Dr Jason Sumich
Research Officer
Mozambique, South Africa, historical construction and social reproduction of elites, cities in conflict

The following LSE researchers were involved in Phase One of the Crisis States Programme from 2000 - 2005.

• Dr Tim Allen
  Reader in Development Studies
  Complex emergencies, ethnic conflict, forced migration, local conception of health and healing, East Africa (especially Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), development aid and agencies, and ethics of aid.
  
  
• Prof Jo Beall
  Reader in Development Studies; Director of DESTIN
  Southern Africa, South Asia, development policy & management, urban social development, urban governance, gender, social policy & international development, social exclusion & local responses to crisis and conflict.
  
  
• Dr Teddy Brett
  Visiting Senior Research Fellow
  Political economy of development, world economy & financial institutions, politics of development in Africa (with special reference to Uganda), development management.
  
  
• Dr Jonathan Curry-Machado
  Research Officer
  Latin America and the Caribbean (in particular Cuba); social, migration and labour history.
  
  
• Dr Jonathan DiJohn
  Lecturer in Development Studies/Development Management
  development economics, institutional economics, political economy, industrial policy & development, economic history of Latin America (especially Venezuela).
  
  
• Dr Jean-Paul Faguet
  Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development
  Latin America, political economy, public economics, comparative politics and development economics.
  
  
• Mr Andrew Fischer
  Research student
  Poverty, inequality and ethnic discrimination; West China, North India & Nepal; refugee movements and migration; international production networks, global capitalism, and neo-mercantilism; cultural and ethical adaptations to modernity and globalisation; Buddhist philosophy; Tibetan language.
  
  
• Dr Antonio Giustozzi
  Research fellow
  War, politics, society and state-building in Afghanistan.
  
  
• Prof John Harriss
  Professor of Development Studies
  India, politics & political economyeconomic sociology, political sociology, political anthropology, social capital & civil society, social & political aspects of globalisation.
  
  
• Dr David Keen
  Reader in Development Studies
  Famine, civil war, human rights, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Northern Iraq,
  
  
• Dr Jenny Kuper
  Research Fellow
  International human rights and humanitarian law and policy, law and policy relating to children and young people, UN law and policy.
  
  
• Mr Ralf Leiteritz
  Research Student
  International political economy, latin american politics, international financial institutions, constructivism in international relations theory.
  
  
• Prof Peter Loizos
  Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
  Comunal violence, Cyprus, development projects, documentary films, gender, Greco-Turkish relations, participation; refugee adaptation problems.
  
  
• Mr Laurie Nathan
  Visiting Research Fellow
  Conflict resolution, security theory, defence policy, civil-military relations, arms exports, regional security in Africa.
  
  
• Dr James Putzel
  Director of Crisis States Research Centre
  South East Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), politics & development, agricultural & rural development, agrarian reform, governance & business.
  
  
• Dr Dennis Rodgers
  Lecturer in Development Studies
  Latin America, South Asia, social anthropology, violence & crime, youth gangs, crisis & breakdown, urban poverty, international migration, rural co-operatives, development discourse, human rights, work practices of UN bureaucracies.
  
  
• Dr Purna Sen
  Lecturer in Development Studies
  Violence against women; sexuality and sexual practice; violence, sexuality, culture and development; human rights and social policy; feminist organisation and politics. 
  
  
• Dr Ken Shadlen
  Lecturer in Development Studies
  Democratisation, international political economy of development, development strategies in the contemporary global economy, intellectual property rights and development, international institutions and global economic governance.
  
  
• Prof Robert Wade
  Professor of Political Economy and Development
  Globalization, inequality, economic growth, capital markets, financial crises, industrial & technology policy, international environmental politics, international NGOs, Asian development, World Bank, common property theory.