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Series 2
 

Title : 'Some Reflections on the Notion of an 'inclusive political pact': a perspective from Ahmedabad'

Working Paper No :  71 (series 2)

Author:  Neera Chandhoke

Date :  March 2010

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Title : 'The Open City: social networks and violence in Karachi'

Working Paper No :  70 (series 2)

Author:  Azmat Ali Budhani, Haris Gazdar, Sobia Ahmad Kaker, Hussain Bux Mallah

Date :  March 2010

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Title : 'Buffer Zone, Colonial Enclave or Urban Hub?  Quetta: between four regions and two wars'

Working Paper No :  69 (series 2)

Author:  Haris Gazdar, Sobia Ahmad Kaker, Irfan Khan

Date :  February 2010

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Title : 'Nationalism, Urban Poverty and Identity in Maputo, Mozambique'

Working Paper No :  68 (series 2)

Author:  Jason Sumich

Date :  February 2010

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Title : 'The Bastard Child of Nobody'?: anti-planning and the institutional crisis in contemporary Kampala'

Working Paper No :  67 (series 2)

Author:  Tom Goodfellow

Date :  February 2010

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Title : Negotiating with the Taliban: toward a solution for the Afghan conflict

Working Paper No :  66 (series 2)

Author:  Talatbek Masadykov, Antonio Giustozzi, James Michael Page

Date :  January 2010

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Title : Armed Conflict, Crime and Social Protest in South Bolivar, Colombia (1996-2004)

Working Paper No :  65 (series 2)

Author:  Gonzalo Vargas

Date :  December 2009

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Title : Civil Society in Conflict Cities: the case of Ahmedabad

Working Paper No :  64 (series 2)

Author:  Neera Chandhoke

Date :  November 2009

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Title : The Changing Cross-border Trade Dynamics between north-western Uganda, north-eastern Congo and southern Sudan

Working Paper No :  63 (series 2)

Author:  Kristof Titeca

Date :  November 2009

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Title : The Eye of the Storm: cities in the vortex of Afghanistan's civil wars

Working Paper No :  62 (series 2)

Author:  Antonio Giustozzi

Date :  November 2009

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Title : The City as Frontier: urban development and identity processes in Goma

Working Paper No :  61 (series 2)

Author:  Koen Vlassenroot and Karen Buescher

Date :  November 2009

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Title : Urban Politics, Conspiracy and Reform in Nampula, Mozambique

Working Paper No :  60 (series 2)

Author:  Jason Sumich

Date :  November 2009

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Title : Peacemaking in the Midst of War: an assessment of IGAD's contribution to regional security

Working Paper No :  59 (series 2)

Author:  Sally Healy

Date :  November 2009

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Title : The Quandaries of Coding and Ranking: evaluating poor state performance indexes

Working Paper No :  58 (series 2)

Author:  Francisco Gutierrez Sanin

Date :  November 2009

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Title The African Union as Security Actor: African Solutions to African Problems?

Working Paper No : 57 (series 2)

Authors :  Bjorn Moller

Date : August 2009

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Title Africa's Sub-regional Organisations: seamless web or patchwork?

Working Paper No : 56 (series 2)

Authors :  Bjorn Moller

Date : August 2009

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Title Indigenous Institutions, Traditional Leaders and Elite Coalitions for Development: the case of Greater Durban, South Africa

Working Paper No : 55 (series 2)

Authors :  Jo Beall and Mduduzi Ngonyama

Date : July 2009

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Title The Congolese Elite and the Fragmented City: the struggle for the emergence of a dominant class in Kinshasa

Working Paper No : 54 (series 2)

Authors : William Freund

Date : August 2009

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Title Portrait of Kinshasa: a city on (the) edge

Working Paper No : 53 (series 2)

Authors :  Pascal Kapagama and Rachel Waterhouse

Date : July 2009

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Title Regional Arrangements and Security Challenges: a comparative analysis

Working Paper No : 52 (series 2)

Authors :  Juergen Haacke and Paul D. Williams

Date : July 2009

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Title The Dissipation of Political Capital among Afghanistan's Hazaras: 2001-2009

Working Paper No : 51 (series 2)

Authors :  Niamatullah Ibrahimi

Date : June 2009

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Title Force and Ambiguity: evaluating sources for cross-national research - the case of military interventions

Working Paper No : 50 (series 2)

Authors :  Francisco Gutierrez Sanin and Andrea Gonzalez Pena

Date : June 2009

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Title Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanisms: tools for enhancing the effectiveness of regional organisations?  a comparative study of the AU, ECOWAS, IGAD, ASEAN/ARF and PIF

Working Paper No : 49 (series 2)

Authors :  Herbert Wulf and Tobias Debial

Date : May 2009

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Title Stupid and Expensive? a critique of the costs-of-violence literature

Working Paper No : 48 (series 2)

Authors :  Francisco Gutierrez-Sanin

Date : April 2009

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Title : The Tormented Triangle: the regionalisation of conflict in Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic

Working Paper No : 47 (series 2)

Author : Jennifer Giroux, David Lanz, Damiano Sguiatamatti

Date : April 2009

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Title : The Perils of Emerging Statehood: civil war and state reconstruction in Tajikistan

Working Paper No : 46 (series 2)

Author : Anna Matveeva

Date : March 2009

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Title : Nothing but Failure?  the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council as Mediators in Middle Eastern Conflicts

Working Paper No : 45 (series 2)

Author : Marco Pinfari

Date : March 2009

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Title : Politics and Security in Three Colombian Cities

Working Paper No : 44 (series 2)

Author : Francisco Gutierrez Sanin, Maria Teresa Pinto, Juan Carlos Arenas, Tania Guzman, Maria Teresa Gutierrez

Date : March 2009

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Title : Who governs Kabul? Explaining urban politics in a post-war capital city

Working Paper No : 43 (series 2)

Author : Daniel Esser

Date : February 2009

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Title : Divide and rule: State penetration in Hazarajat (Afghanistan) from monarchy to the Taliban

Working Paper No : 42 (series 2)

Author : Niamatullah Ibrahimi

Date : January 2009

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Title : At the sources of factionalism and civil war in Hazarajat

Working Paper No : 41 (series 2)

Author : Niamatullah Ibrahimi

Date : January 2009

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Title : Afghanistan: transition without end

Working Paper No : 40 (series 2)

Author : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : November 2008

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Title : The SCO: a regional organisation in the making

Working Paper No : 39 (series 2)

Author : Anna Matveeva and Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2008

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Title The UN Peacebuilding Commission and the Dissemination of International Norms

Working Paper No : 38 (series 2)

Author : Rob Jenkins

Date : June 2008

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Title An Illness Called Managua

Working Paper No : 37 (series 2)

Author : Dennis Rodgers

Date : May 2008

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Title Gulu Town in War... and Peace? Displacement, Humanitarianism and Post-War Crisis

Working Paper No : 36 (series 2)

Author : Adam Branch

Date : April 2008

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Title : Creole and Tribal Designs: Dar es Salaam and Kampala as Ethnic Cities in Coalescing Nation States

Working Paper No : 35 (series 2)

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Date : April 2008

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Title Does the Organisation of American States Matter?

Working Paper No : 34 (series 2)

Author : Monica Herz

Date : April 2008

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Title Regional Organisations and Conflict Management: comparing ASEAN and SAARC

Working Paper No : 33 (series 2)

Author : Kripa Sridharan

Date : March 2008

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Title State-Making and the Post-Conflict City: Integration in Dili, Disintegration in Timor-Leste

Working Paper No : 32 (series 2)

Author : Ben Moxham

Date : February 2008

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Title : Anti-imperialism Trumps Human Rights: South Africa's Approach to the Darfur Conflict

Working Paper No : 31 (series 2)

Author : Laurie Nathan

Date : February 2008

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Title : European Security: The Role of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Working Paper No : 30 (series 2)

Author : Bjorn Moller

Date : February 2008

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Title : European Security: The Role of the European Union

Working Paper No : 29 (series 2)

Author : Bjorn Moller

Date : February 2008

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Title : Collapse, War and Reconstruction in Rwanda: An analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 28 (series 2)

Author : Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

Date : February 2008

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Title : Collapse, War and Reconstruction in Uganda: An analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 27 (series 2)

Author : Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

Date : January 2008

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Title : Drivers of Change in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Rise and Decline of the State and Challenges For Reconstruction - A Literature Review

Working Paper No : 26 (Series 2)

Author: James Putzel, Stefan Lindemann and Claire Schouten

Date : January 2008

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Title : Conceptualising the Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature

Working Paper No : 25 (Series 2)

Author: Jonathan Di John

Date : January 2008

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Title : District Creation and Decentralisation in Uganda

Working Paper No : 24 (Series 2)

Author: Elliott Green

Date : January 2008

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Title : Strong Party, Weak State? Frelimo and State Survival Through the Mozambican Civil War: an analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 23 (series 2)

Author : Jason Sumich

Date : December 2007

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Title : Policing, Regime Change, and Democracy: Reflections from the Case of Mexico

Working Paper No : 22 (series 2)

Author : Diane E. Davis

Date : November 2007

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Title : The Rise and Decline of the Congolese State: an analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 21 (series 2)

Author : Gabi Hesselbein

Date : November 2007

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Title : RoboWar TM Dreams: Global South Urbanisation and the US Military's "Revolution in Military Affairs"

Working Paper No : 20 (series 2)

Author(s) : Stephen Graham

Date : November 2007

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Title : Violent Liberalism? State, Conflict and Political Regime in Colombia, 1930-2006: an analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 19 (series 2)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutierrrez Sanin, Tatiana Acevedo and Juan Manuel Viatela

Date :  November 2007

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Title : The State and the Informal in Sub-Saharan African Economies: Revisiting Debates on Dualism

Working Paper No : 18 (series 2)

Author(s) : Deborah Potts

Date :  October 2007

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Title : Comparative Research on Contested Cities: Lenses and Scaffoldings

Working Paper No : 17 (series 2)

Author(s) : Scott Bollens

Date : October 2007

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Title : The Illegitimacy of Democracy? Democratisation and Alienation in Maputo, Mozambique

Working Paper No : 16 (series 2)

Author(s) : Jason Sumich

Date : September 2007

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Title : Municipal Finance Systems in Conflict Cities: case studies on Ahmedabad and Srinagar, India

Working Paper No : 15 (series 2)

Author(s) : Pritha Venkatachalam

Date : July 2007

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Title : Understanding State-Building and Local Government in Afghanistan

Working Paper No : 14 (series 2)

Author(s) : Sarah Lister

Date : May 2007

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Title : The Regionalist Project in Central Asia: Unwilling Playmates

Working Paper No : 13 (series 2)

Author(s) : Anna Matveeva

Date : March 2007

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Title : Making Law in Rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya

Working Paper No : 12 (series 2)

Author(s) : Suzette Heald

Date :March 2007

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Title : The Missing Ingredient: Non-Ideological Insurgency and State Collapse in Western Afghanistan, 1979-1992

Working Paper No : 11 (series 2)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : February 2007

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Title : Slum Wars of the 21st Century: the New Geography of Conflict in Central America

Working Paper No : 10 (series 2)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : February 2007

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Title : Cities, Terrorism and Urban Wars of the 21st Century

Working Paper No : 9 (series 2)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : February 2007

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Title : Identifying Fraud in Democratic Elections: a Case Study of the 2004 Presidential Election in Mozambique

Working Paper No : 8 (series 2)

Author(s) : Joe Hanlon and Sean Fox

Date : December 2006

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Title : "Tribes" and Warlords in Southern Afghanistan, 1980-2005

Working Paper No : 7 (series 2)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2006

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Title : The Failure of a Clerical Proto-State: Hazarajat, 1979 - 1984

Working Paper No : 6 (series 2)

Author(s) : Niamatullah Ibrahimi

Date : September 2006

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Title : No Ownership, No Peace: the Darfur Peace Agreement

Working Paper No : 5 (series 2)

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date :September 2006

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Title : Genesis of a 'Prince': the Rise of Ismail Khan in Western Afghanistan, 1979-1992

Working Paper No : 4 (series 2)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2006

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Title : Economic and Political Foundations of State-Making in Africa: Understanding State Reconstruction

Working Paper No : 3 (series 2)

Author(s) : Frederick Golooba Mutebi, Gabi Hesselbein and James Putzel

Date : July 2006

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Title : Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-combatants (DDR) in Afghanistan: constraints and limited capabilities

Working Paper No : 2 (series 2)

Author(s) : Simonetta Rossi & Antonio Giustozzi

Date : June 2006

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Title : War, State Collapse and Reconstruction: Phase 2 of the Crisis States Programme

Working Paper No : 1 (series 2)

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : May 2006

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Series 1

 

Title : Dominance and Retaliation in the Informal Structure of Authority: a comparative study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar

Working Paper No : 81 (series 1)

Author(s) : Rakesh Chaubey

Date : September 2006

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Title : A State of One's Own: secessionism and federalism in India

Working Paper No : 80 (series 1)

Author(s) : Neera Chandhoke

Date : September 2006

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Title :Explaining Manipur's Breakdown and Mizoram's Peace: the state and identities in North East India

Working Paper No : 79 (series 1)

Author(s) : M.Sajjad Hassan

Date :February 2006

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Title : State Failure and Success in Uganda and Zimbabwe: the logic of political decay and reconstruction in Africa

Working Paper No : 78 (series 1)

Author(s) : E.A. Brett

Date : February 2006

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Title : Rwanda's Ordinary Killers: interpreting popular participation in the Rwandan genocide
Working Paper No : 77 (series 1)

Author(s) : Omar McDoom

Date : December 2005

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Title : The Political Economy of Anti-Politics and Social Polarisation in Venezuela, 1998-2004

Working Paper No : 76 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan DiJohn

Date : December 2005

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Title : Of Broken Social Contracts and Ethnic Violence:  the case of Kashmir

Working Paper No : 75 (series 1)

Author(s) : Neera Chandhoke

Date :December 2005

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Title : The Country Behind the Ballot Box: the impact of political reform in Colombia during a humanitarian crisis

Working Paper No : 74 (series 1)

Author(s) : Marcela Ceballo & Ivan Romero

Date : December 2005

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Title : 'Populism' Visits Africa: the case of Yoweri Museveni and no-party democracy in Uganda

Working Paper No : 73 (series 1)

Author(s) : Giovanni Carbone

Date :December 2005

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Title : Subverting the Spaces of Invitation - local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires

Working Paper No : 72 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : October 2005

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Title : Urban Segregation from Below: drugs, consumption and primitive accumulation in Managua, Nicaragua

Working Paper No : 71 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : October 2005

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Title : Conflict, State and Decentralisation: from social progress to an armed dispute for local control, 1974-2002

Working Paper No : 70(series 1)

Author(s) : Fabio Sanchez and Mario Chacon

Date : October 2005

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Title : Law as a Tool: the challenge of HIV/Aids in Uganda

Working Paper No : 69 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jenny Kuper

Date : September 2005

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Title : Close Encounters of an Inner Asian Kind: Tibetan-Muslim co-existence and conflict in Tibet past and present

Working Paper No : 68 (series 1)

Author(s) : Andrew Fischer

Date : Sept 2005

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Title : The Ethnicisation of an Afghan faction: Junbesh-i-Milli from its origins to the presidential elections

Working Paper No : 67 (series 1)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : Sept 2005

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Title : Re-stating the State:paramilitary territorial control and political order in Colombia (1978-2004)

Working Paper No : 66 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutierrez Sanin and Mauricio Baron

Date : Sept 2005

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Title : The Political Economy of Nicaragua's Institutional and Organisational Framework for Dealing with Youth Violence

Working Paper No : 65 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jos?Luis Rocha G?ez

Date : June 2005

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Title : Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare': Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba (1989-2004)

Working Paper No : 64 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan Curry-Machado

Date : June 2005

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Title : Deconstruction without Reconstruction? The Case of Peru (1978-2004)

Working Paper No : 63 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutierrez Sanin

Date : June 2005

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Title : The Effects of Decentralisation on Public Investment: Evidence and Four Lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Working Paper No : 62 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jean-Paul Faguet

Date : June 2005

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Title : Unintentional Democratisation? The Argentinazo and the Politics of Participatory Budgeting in Buenos Aires, 2001-2004

Working Paper No : 61 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : April 2005

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Title : Crafting Democracy and Good Governance in Local Arenas: Theory, Dilemmas, and their Resolution through the Experiments in Madhya Pradesh, India

Working Paper No : 60 (series 1)

Author(s) : Manoj Srivastava

Date : April 2005

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Title : Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa

Working Paper No : 59 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : January 2005

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Title : From Corporatism to Liberalisation in Zimbabwe: Economic Policy Regimes and Political Crisis (1980-1997)

Working Paper No : 58 (series 1)

Author(s) : E. A. Brett

Date : January 2005

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Title : Electoral Behaviour Trends and Decentralisation in Colombia's Municipalities, 1988-2000

Working Paper No : 57 (series 1)

Author(s) : Diana Hoyos & Marcela Ceballos

Date : December 2004

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Title : Business-led Peacebuilding in Colombia: Fad or Future of a Country in Crisis?

Working Paper No : 56 (series 1)

Author(s) : Angelika Rettberg

Date : December 2004

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Title : Security Communities and the Problem of Domestic Instability

Working Paper No : 55 (series 1)

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date :November 2004

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Title : Decentralisation and Engendering Democracy: Lessons from Local Government Reform in South Africa

Working Paper No : 54 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : November 2004

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Title : Postcolonial Workplace Regimes in the Engineering Industry in South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe

Working Paper No : 53 (series 1)

Author(s) : Andries Bezuidenhout

Date :November 2004

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Title : Critically Assessing Traditions: The Case of Meghalaya

Working Paper No : 52 (series 1)

Author(s) : Manorama Sharma

Date : November 2004

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Title : 'Good' State vs. 'Bad' Warlords? A Critique of State-Building Strategies in Afghanistan

Working Paper No : 51 (series 1)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : October 2004

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Title : The Absence of Common Values and Failure of Common Security in Southern Africa, 1992-2003

Working Paper No : 50 (series 1)

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : July 2004

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Title : The Legacies of Apartheid and Implications of Economic Liberalisation

Working Paper No : 49 (series 1)

Author(s) : Sarah Mosoetsa

Date : July 2004

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Title : Traditional Authority, Institutional Multiplicity and Political Transition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Working Paper No : 48 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall, Sibongiseni Mkhize & Shahid Vawda

Date : July 2004

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Title : A Geography of Illicit Crops (Coca Leaf) and Armed Conflict in Colombia

Working Paper No : 47 (series 1)

Author(s) : Ana Maria Diaz and Fabio Sanchez

Date :

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Title : The Political Economy of Economic Liberalisation in Venezuela

Working Paper No : 46 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan DiJohn

Date : June 2004

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Title : Representation, Participation and Development: Lessons from Small Industry in Latin America

Working Paper No : 45 (series 1)

Author(s) : Kenneth C. Shadlen

Date : June 2004

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Title : Understanding the Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of  Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Working Paper No : 44 (series 1)

Author(s) : Debby Bonnin

Date : June 2004

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Title : Rethinking Militarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Working Paper No : 43 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jacklyn Cock

Date : June 2004

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Title : Urban Fault Lines in Shangri-La: Population and Economic Foundations of Inter-Ethnic Conflict in the Tibetan Areas of Western China

Working Paper No : 42 (series 1)

Author(s) : Andrew Martin Fischer

Date : June 2004

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Title : Access to Justice: The Palestinian Legal System and the Fragmentation of Coercive Power

Working Paper No : 41 (series 1)

Author(s) : Tobias Kelly

Date : March 2004

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Title : Constructing Authority Alternatives in Colombia: Globalisation and the Transformation of Governance

Working Paper No : 40 (series 1)

Author(s) : Ann C. Mason

Date : January 2004

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Title : Ethnic Conflicts and Traditional Self-governing Institutions: A Study of Laitumkrah Dorbar

Working Paper No : 39 (series 1)

Author(s) : Apurba K. Baruah

Date : January 2004

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Title : Political Participation and War in Colombia: An Analysis of the 2002 Elections

Working Paper No : 38 (series 1)

Author(s) : Miguel Garcia and Gary Hoskin

Date : November 2003

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Title : Demobilising Guatemala

Working Paper No : 37 (series 1)

Author(s) : David Keen

Date : November 2003

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Title : Developing Multi-Party Politics: Stability and Change in Ghana and Mozambique

Working Paper No : 36 (series 1)

Author(s) : Giovanni M. Carbone

Date : November 2003

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Title : Dying For It: Gangs, Violence and Social Change in Urban Nicaragua

Working Paper No : 35 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : October 2003

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Title : North African Islamism in the Blinding Light of 9-11

Working Paper No : 34 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : October 2003

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Title : Respectable Warlords? The Politics of State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan

Working Paper No : 33 (series 1)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date :September 2003

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Title : Violence and Drug Prohibition in Colombia

Working Paper No : 32 (series 1)

Author(s) : Carlos Medina & Hermes Martinez

Date : August 2003

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Title : What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of 'development space'

Working Paper No : 31 (series 1)

Author(s) : Robert Hunter Wade

Date : June 2003

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Title : Peru's Failed Search for Political Stability

Working Paper No : 30 (series 1)

Author(s) : Maria Emma Wills and Maria Teresa Pinto

Date : June 2003

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Title : Decentralization and local government in Bolivia: an overview from the bottom up

Working Paper No : 29 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jean-Paul Faguet

Date : May 2003

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Title : From the Alliance for Progress to the Plan Colombia: a retrospective look at US aid to Colombia

Working Paper No : 28 (series 1)

Author(s) : Luis Eduardo Fajardo

Date : April 2003

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Title : Criminal Rebels? A discussion of war and criminality from the Colombian experience

Working Paper No : 27 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutierrez Sanin

Date : April 2003

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Title : The dynamics of achieving 'power' and 'reform' as a positive-sum game: a report on the preliminary ethnographic explorations of the politics-governance nexus in Madhya Pradesh, India?

Working Paper No : 26 (series 1)

Author(s) : Manoj Srivastava

Date : March 2003

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Title : The Times of Democratic Involutions

Working Paper No : 25 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutierrez Sanin

Date : March 2003 (revised January 2005)

[Abstract]    [PDF - English]    [PDF - Espagnol]

 

Title : Hyper-Fragmentation and Traditional Politics in Colombia: Discussing Alternative Explanations

Working Paper No : 24 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutierrez Sanin

Date : March 2003 (revised September 2004)

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Title : Emerging Pluralist Politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo party system

Working Paper No : 23 (series 1)

Author(s) : Giovanni M. Carbone

Date : March 2003

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Title : Tribal traditions and crises of governance in North East India, with special reference to Meghalaya

Working Paper No : 22 (series 1)

Author(s) : Apurba Baruah

Date : March 2003

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Title : Women in war and crisis zones - one key to Africa's wars of underdevelopment

Working Paper No : 21 (series 1)

Author(s) : Victoria Brittain

Date : December 2002

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Mineral resource abundance and violent political conflict: a critical assessment of the rentier state model

Working Paper No : 20 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan DiJohn

Date : December 2002

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Title : From Segmentarity to Opacity: on Gellner and Bourdieu, or why Algerian politics have eluded theoretical analysis and vice versa

Working Paper No : 19 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : December 2002

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Title : Politics, the state and the impulse for social protection: the implications of Karl Polanyi's ideas for understanding development and crisis

Working Paper No : 18 (series 1)

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : October 2002

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Title : Moral economy or moral polity? The political anthropology of Algerian riots

Working Paper No : 17 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : October 2002

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Title : Domesticating Leviathan: Sungusungu groups in Tanzania

Working Paper No : 16 (series 1)

Author(s) : Suzette Heald

Date : September 2002

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Are donors to Mozambique promoting corruption?

Working Paper No : 15 (series 1)

Author(s) : Joseph Hanlon

Date : August 2002

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Title : "Since I am a Dog, Beware my Fangs": Beyond a 'rational violence' framework in the Sierra Leonean war.

Working Paper No : 14 (series 1)

Author(s) : David Keen

Date : August 2002

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Title : The state, tradition and conflict in the North Eastern states of India

Working Paper No : 13 (series 1)

Author(s) : John Harriss

Date : August 2002

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Title : Liberal theory, uneven development and institutional reform: responding to the crisis in weak states

Working Paper No : 12 (series 1)

Author(s) : E A Brett

Date : July 2002

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Title : Social Differentiation and Urban Governance in Greater Soweto: a case study of post-apartheid reconstruction

Working Paper No : 11 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw & Susan Parnell

Date : February 2002

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Title : The People Behind the Walls: Insecurity, identity and gated communities in Johannesburg

Working Paper No : 10 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : February 2002

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Title : Governance and Conflict Management: implications for donor intervention

Working Paper No : 9 (series 1)

Author(s) : Benedict Latto

Date : February 2002

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Title : Subaltern Resurgence: a reconnaissance of Panchayat election in Bihar

Working Paper No : 8 (series 1)

Author(s) : Shaibal Gupta

Date : January 2002

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Title : Co-opting Identity: the manipulation of Berberism, the frustration of democratisation and the generation of violence in Algeria

Working Paper No : 7 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : December 2001

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Title : Making Danger a Calling: Anthropology, violence and the dilemmas of participant observation

Working Paper No : 6 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : September 2001

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Title : Crisis States: South Africa in Southern Africa

Working Paper No : 5 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date : April 2001

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Title :Research in Latin America

Working Paper No : 4 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

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Title : Collaborative Research: States of Crisis in South Asia and on "Political Ethnography"

Working Paper No : 3 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

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Title : Research activities

Working Paper No : 2 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Concepts and Research Agenda

Working Paper No : 1 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

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Discussion Papers
 

Title : Anatomy of a 'Political Chameleon' : re-examining fluid shapes and solid constants of nationalism and nation-building

Discussion Paper No : 17 (series 2)

Author(s) : Dominik Helling

Date : November 2009

[Abstract]  [PDF]

 

Title : Building an Effective African Standby Force to promote African Stability, Conflict Resolution and Prosperity

Discussion Paper No : 16 (series 2)

Author(s) : Jeffery E. Marshall

Date : April 2009

[Abstract]  [PDF]

 

Title : Do inclusive elite bargains matter? A research framework for  understanding the causes of civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Discussion Paper No : 15 (series 2)

Author(s) : Stefan Lindemann

Date : February 2008

[Abstract]  [PDF]

 

Title : The Political Consequences of Ethnic Mapping

Discussion Paper No : 14

Author(s) : Neera Chandhoke

Date : December 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The Debate on Warlordism: the importance of military legitimacy

Discussion Paper No : 13

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The Power of Justice, Justice as Power

Discussion Paper No : 12

Author(s) : Jon Lunn

Date : September 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The Frightful Inadequacy of Most of the Statistics

Discussion Paper No :  11

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : September 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Mediation and the African Union's Panel of the Wise

Discussion Paper No :  10

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : July 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Disrupting Democracy? Altering Landscapes of Local Government in Post-2000 Zimbabwe

Discussion Paper No :  9

Author(s) : Amanda Hammar 

Date : March 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Media Policy, Peace and State Reconstruction

Discussion Paper No :  8

Author(s) : Tim Allen & Nicole Stremlau 

Date : March 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title :  The Political Impact of Globalisation and Liberalisation: Evidence Emerging from Crisis States Research

Discussion Paper No :  7

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : November 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Old Wine in New Bottles or New Wine in Old? Conceptualising Violence and Governmentality in Latin America

Discussion Paper No :  6

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : November 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Accounting for South Africa's Successful Transition to Democracy

Discussion Paper No : 5 

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : June 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Moving Beyond 'Institutions Matter': Some Reflections on how the 'Rules of the Game' Evolve and Change

Discussion Paper No : 4 

Author(s) : March 2004

Date : Manoj Srivastava

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Democracy in the Desert: Civil Society, Nation Building and Empire

Discussion Paper No : 3 

Author(s) : Jean-Paul Faguet

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The 'new' imperialism and possibilities for coexistence

Discussion Paper No : 2

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The Politics of 'Participation': Civil Society, the State and Development Assistance

Discussion Paper No : 1 

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 


 

Occasional Papers

Title : Overview of Municipal Finance Systems in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Occasional Paper No : 10

Author(s) : Pritha Venkatachalam

Date : November 2009

[abstract] [PDF]

 

Title : Economic Initiatives to Tackle Conflict: bringing politics back in

Occasional Paper No : 9

Author(s) : David Keen

Date : May 2009

[abstract] [PDF]
 

Title : Guarding the State or Protecting the Economy?  the economic factors of Pakistan's military coups

Occasional Paper No : 8

Author(s) : Amina Ibrahim

Date : May 2009

[abstract] [PDF]

 

Title : Tribal Security System (Arbakai) in Southeast Afghanistan

Occasional Paper No : 7

Author(s) : Mohammed Osman Tariq

Date : December 2008

[abstract] [PDF]


Title :
Capital Cities in Civil Wars: The Locational Dimension of Sovereign Authority

Occasional Paper No : 6

Author(s) : Marika Landau-Wells

Date : April 2008

[Abstract] [PDF]

 

Title :  Domestic Ownership or Foreign Control? A Content Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers from Eight Countries

Occasional Paper No : 5

Author(s) : Marte Briseid, Laura Collinson, Richard L. Klein and Agathe Schjetlein

Date : March 2008

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Title : Beyond Beirut: why reconstruction in Lebanon did not contribute to state-making and stability

Occasional Paper No : 4

Author(s) : Kathrin Hoeckel

Date : July 2007

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Sudan: international dimensions to the state and its crisis

Occasional Paper No : 3

Author(s) : Alex de Waal

Date : April 2007

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Sudan: What kind of state? What kind of crisis?

Occasional Paper No : 2

Author(s) : Alex de Waal

Date : April 2007

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : On the Death Toll in Iraq since 1990

Occasional Paper No :  1

Author(s) : Tim Dyson

Date : December 2006

[Abstract]   [PDF]

 


 

Briefing Papers

 

Title : The Continuities of Conflict in Peacetime

Briefing Paper No : 16

Date :February 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : North African Islamism after 9-11

Briefing Paper No : 15

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Political participation and civil war

Briefing Paper No : 14

Date : December 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Foreign aid, state stabilisation and counter-insurgency

Briefing Paper No : 13

Date : September 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Decentralization and Local Government

Briefing Paper No : 12

Date : September 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Social differentiation and urban governance

Briefing Paper No : 11

Date : July 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Insecurity, identity and gated communities

Briefing Paper No : 10

Date : July 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The dynamics of achieving 'Power' and 'Reform'

Briefing Paper No : 9

Date : July 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Challenging the 'Criminal Rebel' thesis

Briefing Paper No : 8

Date : May 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Beyond a rational violence framework: Psychological causes of civil war violence

Briefing Paper No : 7

Date : May 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The emergence of post-civil war pluralist politics

Briefing Paper No : 6

Date : April 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Involution of democratic institutions

Briefing Paper No : 5

Date : March 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Community-based approaches to dealing with rural violence

Briefing Paper No : 4

Date : March 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Women in War and Crisis Zones

Briefing Paper No : 3

Date : March 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Mineral-Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict

Briefing Paper No : 2

Date : March 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Tribal traditions and crises of governance

Briefing Paper No : 1

Date : March 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 


 

Other Papers

 

Teddy Brett, 'Political Victories and Economic Defeats: Managing the Post-Election Crisis in Zimbabwe', a briefing from the Crisis States project Impact of Liberalisation on Zimbabwe
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Teddy Brett, 'Systemic Crises, Conflicting Interests and State Failure in Zimbabwe', notes from the Crisis States project 'The Impact of Liberalisation on Zimbabwe'
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Neera Chandhoke, Project Proposal from the Crisis States project 'Conflict and Institutional Change in India'
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Neera Chandhoke, Note on Methodology from the Crisis States project 'Conflict and Institutional Change in India'
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Rajesh Dev, A. K. Baruah & Manorama Sharma, 'Liberal democracy, tribal institutions and politics of representation: analysing the Nongkynrih Shnong Dorbar', draft paper from the Research in North East India project.
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Andrew Fischer, extended abstract of research project 'Population and political economy foundations of ethnic exclusion and conflict in contemporary Tibet'
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Gary Hoskin (with Rodolfo Mas?s & Marcela Galvis)
'Modelos de decision y perfiles de votante en Colombia: Elecciones presidenciales, 2002' - from the Crisis States project: Elections, Democracy and Violence: the 2002 elections in Colombia
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Jenny Kuper, 'Law as a Tool: The Challenge of HIV/AIDS', background paper for the International Law in Situations of Crisis and Breakdown project.
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Carlos Mario Perea, 'El Parche es Parche: pandillas, picos y violencias', notes from the Crisis States project Identity, Gangs and Conflict: Youth Violence in Bogota Baranquilla & Nieva
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Angelika Rettberg, 'Business-led peace building in Colombia: fad or future of a country in crisis?', final report from the Crisis States project Building peace locally: business-led peace initiatives in Colombia
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Special Reports

 

Dennis Rodgers, 'Joining the Gang and becoming a Broder: the violence of ethnography in contemporary Nicaragua', Special Issue, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol 26/4.
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Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark (eds), 'Courting Conflict?: justice, peace and the ICC in Africa' (March 2008)
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Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark, 'Peace, Justice and the ICC in Africa' (August 2007)
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James Putzel (ed), Issue 66 of id21 Insights 'Retaining Legitimacy in Fragile States'  (May 2007)
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Laurie Nathan, 'Local Ownership of Security Sector Reform: a guide for donors' (October 2006)
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James Putzel and Joost van der Zwan, 'Why Templates for Media Development do not Work in Crisis States',  (May 2007)
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Tim Allen and Mareike Schomerus, 'A Hard Homecoming: lessons learnt from the reception center process in northern Uganda', report commissioned by USAID and UNICEF for Management Systems International.
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Tim Allen, 'War and Justice in Northern Uganda: An Assessment of the International Criminal Court's Intervention' (February 2005).
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James Putzel, 'Institutionalising a Medical Response: HIV/AIDS and Governance in Uganda and Senegal'
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Conference Papers

 

The following are papers presented at the joint CSRC/ZEF(Bonn) symposium, 'State Reconstruction and International Engagement in Afghanistan', held in Bonn, May 30th to June 1st 2003

Adam Pain:'Empire light - state light' - transforming the punctuated equilibrium or a pathway to extinction? an introductory paper to the symposium.
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Antonio Giustozzi: Re-building the Afghan Army.
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Jonathan Goodhand: From War Economy to Peace Economy?
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Patricia Gossman: The Past as Present: War Crimes, Impunity, and The Rule of Law
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Martin Lau: Islamic Law and the Afghan Legal System.
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Christine Noelle-Karimi: Local Perceptions of State and Law
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Conrad Schetter: Ethnicity and the political Reconstruction in Afghanistan
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Mark Sedra: New Beginning or Return to Arms? The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Process in Afghanistan.
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Barbara J. Stapleton: The Provincial Reconstruction Team Plan in Afghanistan: A New Direction?
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J. Alexander Thier: the Making of a Constitution in Afghanistan
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Ali Wardak: Jirga, Human Rights and Building Post-War Justice System in Afghanistan
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Bernt Glatzer: On the Anatomy and Fault Lines of the Afghan Conflict.
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