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The Crisis States Research Centre regularly organises seminars and other public events related to its research agenda. These result in the production of papers and reports which can be accessed here. Some are formally published whilst others are just available on this website.

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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 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 Masías & Marcela Galvis)
'Modelos de decisión 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, pánicos y violencias', notes from the Crisis States project Identity, Gangs and Conflict: Youth Violence in Bogotá, 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

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',  (June 2006)
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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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Seminar Papers

Victoria Brittain, 'Women in war and crisis zones: one key to Africa's wars of underdevelopment'.
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Giovanni Carbone, 'Emerging Pluralist Politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo party system'.
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Giovanni Carbone, 'Time for Parties in Mozambique and Ghana? The introduction of electoral politics and the development of party systems, 1992-2002
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Ha-Joon Chang, 'The Future of the Developmental State, especially Korea'
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Jonathan Curry-Machado, 'Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare': Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba, 1989-2004'
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Tin Dyson & Robert Cassen, 'The future of India's population'.
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Robert Falkner, 'Genetic Engineering and State Power: Can China Control the Biotechnology Revolution in Agriculture?'
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Andrew Fischer, 'Urban Faultlines in Shangrila: Population, Exclusion and Discourses of Inter-ethnic Conflict in the Tibetan Areas of Western China
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Antonio Giustozzi, 'Respectable Warlords? The transition from war of all against all to peaceful competition in Afghanistan'.
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Afghanistan symposium

Antonio Giustozzi, 'Factional Politics and State Rebuilding in Afghanistan'
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Frederick Golooba-Mutebi, 'Witchcraft and Social Relations in a South African Village'
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Jonathan Goodhand, 'Frontiers and Wars: a study of the opium economy in Afghanistan'.
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Peter Gowan, 'Exploring the international politics of internal regime reshaping amongst core capitalist centres'
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Abby Innes, 'The Elephant in the Room: The Problems of Redeeming the State in Transition
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Toby Kelly, 'Law and Coercion: The Fragmentation of the Palestinian Legal System'
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Peter Lock, 'The Human Habitat and Armed Conflict: Is War Outdated?'
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Peter Loizos, 'Hidden Injuries of Displacement: Greek Cypriot Refugees and Non-refugees Compared'
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Murray Low, 'Dilemmas of Representation in Post-Apartheid Durban'
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Amrita Narlikar, 'A new politics of confrontation? Developing countries at Cancun and beyond'
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Laurie Nathan, 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Structural Causes of Crisis and Violence in Africa'
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Laurie Nathan, 'The Absence of Common Values and Failure of Common Security in Southern Africa'
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Kari Polanyi-Levitt, 'Keynes and Polanyi: then and now'.
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Gwyn Prins, 'HIV/AIDS in the context of the general crisis'.
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James Putzel, 'Thinking about civil society and political parties: challenges for development assistance'.
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James Putzel, 'US Imperialism and the Possibilities for Co-existence'
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Dennis Rodgers, 'Improvising the States vs a State of Improvisation: Local level sociopolitical responses to crisis in Argentina
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Fabio Sánchez & Ana María Díaz, 'The Geography of Illicit Crops and Armed Conflict in Colombia'.
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Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, 'Development Paths and Globalisation in 'Middle' Cases: Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic in Comparative Perspective'
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Aaron Schneider, 'Wholesale versus Within Institutional Change: Pacting Governance Reform in Brazil for Fiscal Responsibility and Tax'
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Kenneth Shadlen, 'Patents, Public Health and the WTO: Developing countries and the strengthening of international governance'.
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Jonathan Spencer, 'The Culture, Politics and Economics of Peace in Sri Lanka'
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Manoj Srivastava, 'Moving Beyond "Institutions Matter": How do the "Rules of the Game" evolve and change? Some reflections on how institutionalists theorise on institutional development'
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Manoj Srivastava, 'Good Governance Matters, but what matters to good governance? Politics of Reform in Madhya Pradesh
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David Stasavage, 'Democracy and Primary Education in Africa'
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Francis Stewart, 'Development and Security'
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Robert Wade, 'The World Bank and Theories of International Organisations'
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Andrew Walter, 'Financial Liberalization and Prudential Regulation in East Asia: Still Perverse'.
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Diana Weinhold, 'Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights'
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Alan Whiteside, 'The Causes and Consequences of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa'
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Ben Wisner, 'The Wind Blew and the Earth Shook, But Nothing Changed: Disasters, Elites, and Civil Society in El Salvador'.
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Conference Papers

Afghanistan Symposium
The following are papers presented at the joint CSP/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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Forum Papers

Iraq
These are the papers that have been posted as contributions to our Forum on Iraq

Richard Eaton, 'Why Iraq? Why Now?'
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David Keen, 'The Best of Enemies'
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James Putzel, 'The White House and the PMO Fail to Make the case for War on Iraq'
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