Research
Seminar Series (2006 - 2007)
The
following seminars have been organised by the Crisis States Research Centre. Unless otherwise stated, they will be held on Wednesdays between
4.00 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. The room number is given next to the date of the
seminar and can vary from week to week - please check carefully (campus map
here). These seminars are open to faculty,
research students, and the wider research community. We will endeavour
to publish papers for each seminar on this site one week before the event.
Michaelmas
Term
Lent Term
Summer Term
SUMMER TERM
Wednesday 25th April - DESTIN Seminar room V414
'Strong party, weak state? Frelimo and state survival through the
Mozambican civil war'
Jason Sumich, Research Officer, Crisis States Research Centre
Wednesday 2nd May - Room U110
'The Perils of Emerging Statehood: civil war and state reconstruction
in Tajikistan'
Anna Matveeva, Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre
Background paper (draft only, not for citation)
Wednesday 9th May - Room U110
'The Political Economy of Region Formation'
Alejandra Salas-Porras, Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre
Background paper
(draft only, not for citation)
Wednesday 16th May - Room U110
'Security and Justice Institutions in Liberia: from state collapse
towards institutions'
Till Blume, University of Konstanz
Background paper
Wednesday 23rd May - Room U110
'The International Community and Rwanda'
Linda Melvern, author and journalist
Wednesday 6th June - Room U210
'Decentralisation, Conflict and Local Governance in Colombia, 1974-2004'
Fabio Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes
Background paper
Wednesday 13th June - Room U210
'Secession in India'
Neera Chandhoke, University of Delhi
Wednesday 20th June - Room U210
'An Analytical Narrative of Zambia'
Jonathan DiJohn, SOAS
Wednesday 27th June - Room U210
'State-building and Reconstruction in NE India'
Sajjad Hassan, Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre
Background paper
(draft, not for citation)
MICHAELMAS TERM 2006
Wednesday
11th October
Maliq Simone
(Goldsmith's College)
'The Unrelenting City and the Political Capacities of those who may seem to
have none'
Download paper
Wednesday
25th October
James Putzel
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Rise and Decline of the State in Congo-Zaire: a re-reading of history'
Wednesday 8th November
Antonio Giustozzi
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Politics of Insurgency in Afghanistan ,1979-2006: parties,
'tribes', warlords and states'
Recent Working Papers on Afghanistan can be viewed here.
Wednesday 15th November
Jennifer Leith
(DFID, and Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre)
'Deconstructing Reconstruction: Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams
(PRTs)'
Wednesday 22nd November
Théodore Trefon
(Musée Royale de l'Afrique Centrale, Belgium)
'Why do administrations persist in failed states?: findings from urban
Congo'
Wednesday 6th December
Monica Nogara
(UN-DESA, and Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Role of Media in Curbing Corruption in Uganda under Museveni: a
variable performance?'
LENT TERM 2007:Wednesday 10th January
Joe Hanlon (Open University)
'FRELIMO and the One Party State'
Wednesday 17th January
Special joint event with POLIS
- presentation and panel debate in Room U8 (Tower One)
Allan Thompson (Carleton University, Ottawa)
'The Role of Media in the Rwandan Genocide'
Wednesday 24th January
Omar McDoom (DESTIN)
'The Micro-foundations of Ethnic Extremism and Radicalisation: insights from the Rwanda genocide.'.
Wednesday 31st January
Zoe Marriage (SOAS)
'Not Breaking the Rules, Not Playing the Game: international assistance to
countries at war'
Download background paper.
Wednesday 7th February
Gabi Hesselbein (Crisis States Research Centre)
'Recent findings from an Analytical Narrative of DR Congo'
Wednesday 14th February
Stephen Ellis (Afrikastudiecentrum, Leiden)
'Crisis States in Africa: some issues of method and theory'
Tuesday 20th February
Rene Lemarchand (University of Florida)
'Burundi at the crossroads'
Background
Paper for seminar
Wedneday 21st February - Room U108 (Tower One)
Steve Graham (University of Durham)
'Cities as Battlespace: Global South urbanisation and the US revolution in
Military Affairs'
Background paper
for seminar (Draft only - not for citation)
Wednesday 7th March - Room U110 (Tower One)
Saad Yahya (Visiting Fellow at DESTIN)
'Overlapping Jurisdictions and Conflicting Ideals: Kampala as a metropolis
in the making'
Background paper for
seminar (not for citation)
Tuesday 13th March
Sarah Lister (Visiting Fellow at CSRC)
'Local Governance in Afghanistan'
Background paper for seminar
(not for citation)
Wednesday 14th March - Room D109 (Clement House)
Scott Bollens (University of California, Irvine)
'Cities, Nationalism and Democratisation'
Background paper for seminar
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