Research Seminar Series (2001-2002)

23 October 2001
The Form of the South African Nation: The figure of the proleterian, the figure of the 'Black'.
Ivor Chipkin, from the Witwatersrand Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISER), a partner to the Crisis States Programme of the Development Research Centre

27 November 2001
Vulnerable States or Vulnerable People? Reflections on Theory, Method, Policy, and Activism.
Ben Wisner, Visiting Research Fellow at DESTIN. He has a Research Affiliation with the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA, and is Vice-Chair of both the International Geographical Union Commission on Hazards and Risk and the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative.
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11 December 2001
Homo Economicus Goes to War: rational choice, methodological individualism, and the political economy of war.
Chris Cramer, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, and convenes the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development.

30 January 2002
Unhelpful help: aid needs to be reconfigured so as to help people help themselves"
David Ellerman, Economic Advisor to the Chief Economist, World Bank

11 February 2002
MOSTAR, 1994-2001: Nationalist partition and international intervention in a Bosnian town.
Sumantra Bose Government Dept., LSE

18 February 2002
Clientelism, innovation and political change.
Francisco Gutierrez, Universidad Nacional, Bogota

4 March 2002
The politics of coherence: relief, politics and war in the post-Cold War era.
Joanna Macrae, Overseas Development Institute

11 March 2002
Fiscal equalization in Indonesia's 2001 "big bang" decentralization
Kai Kaiser, LSE and World Bank

18 March 2002
Governance in Johannesburg.
Jo Beall, DESTIN, LSE

17 May 2002
Conflict resolution in the context of stalemated conflict: lessons from Moldova-Transdniestria..
Mark Hoffman
In the Wake of War: Creating local level accountability in East Africa.
Suzette Heald, Brunel University

31 May 2002
Democratic Decentralisation and Local Power: a political ethnography of the 2001 panchayat elections in Bihar.
Jeffrey Witsoe
Reflections on the Crisis States Programme: thoughts about a case study of Madhya Pradesh.
Manoj Srivastava, CSP, DESTIN

14 June 2002
Post-Conflict Livelihoods and Governance in Rural and Urban KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Jo Beall and Elizabeth Francis, CSP & DESTIN, LSE
Cracking the Development Problem: The Political Economy of the Drugs Trade in Contemporary Urban Nicaragua.
Dennis Rodgers, CSP and DESTIN, LSE

5 July 2002
Media Policy and Crisis States.
Monroe Price