Do No Harm: international support for statebuilding - a new OECD book  for which CSRC Director James Putzel is the principal author

Fragile states: a GSDRC online topic guide written in collaboration with Jo Beall and Golooba Mutebi

Intelligence in a Constitutional Democracy - a report co-authored by Laurie Nathan, the Centre's partner in South Africa

Colombia - Francisco Gutierrez Sanin's Friday column in El Espectador

HIV/Aids - a paper by CSRC Director, Prof James Putzel.

Mozambique - a resource site provided by CSRC Visiting Fellow Joe Hanlon in association with the OU

Media and Crisis States - a report based on the CSRC workshop held in 2006.

Peace, Justice and the ICC in Africa - reports from a workshop series hosted by the Royal African Society and co-funded by the CSRC.

Recordings:
Recordings of a number of radio programmes on Crisis States and development related themes.

 

• Centre members speaking about their work:
• James Putzel gave the keynote address at the National Conference on Asset Reform and Climate Change in the Philippines, (May 2010)
   
• Dennis Rodgers on the changing character of slums worldwide for Swiss TV's Geopolitis programme (Feb 2010)
• Antonio Giustozzi discusses contemporary social and political issues in Afghanistan (Jan 2010)
• Antonio Giustozzi discusses the present and future challenges in Afghanistan for LSE IDEAS (Dec 2009)

  
  Laurie Nathan's work for the Mediation Support Project

   

  James Putzel examines definitions of state fragility and resilience at an ODI seminar (Jul 2009) and takes audience questions.

  
  Jo Beall discusses the challenges of urban development in Johannesburg, at the UrbanAge conference in Mumbai (Nov 2007) Part 1,   Part 2.

   

  Dennis Rodgers gives his paper 'Slum Wars of the 21st Century' at the Institute of Social Studies 'Cities of Extremes' conference (Oct 2007)

   

 

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• Kampala's Old Taxi Park (Photo: Thomas Goodfellow)

 

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) publishes new online topic guide on Fragile States

Over the past 5 years, so-called 'fragile states' and how best to engage with them have emerged as a key priority in the international development community. This guide, written by GSDRC in collaboration with CSRC associates, introduces some of the best academic and practitioner literature on the causes, characteristics and impact of state fragility and the challenges and dilemmas of aid delivery in fragile contexts. It highlights the critical, ongoing and often unresolved debates within the international development and academic communities in relation to understanding and responding to fragile situations, with sections on aid effectiveness, state-building and service delivery. The guide is intended as a reference point for policymakers and will be updated regularly with new publications and emerging issues.http://www.gsdrc.org/go/topic-guides/fragile-states

 

• Special Research Pages:

   

  • HIV/AIDS Crisis
  • Crisis in Argentina
  • Children in Armed Conflict

  Karl Polanyi Research Network
  Iraq

   

Useful Links: 

 

DFID's Research for Development (R4D) website

 

    Other DFID-funded research consortia

Chronic Poverty Research Centre

Centre for the Future State

Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability

Centre for Research on Inequality, Ethnicity and Human Security

 

• General Development Resources   Development Gateway ELDIS - Gateway to Development Information   Governance and Social Development Resource Centre   Research for Development Sustainable Development Gateway     International Government Organisations   Department for International Development (DFID) Europa - The European Union On-Line International Monetary Fund Management of Social Transformations (UNESCO) Office for Security and Cooperation in Europe United Nations United Nations: Department of Peace Keeping Operations United Nations Development Programme United Nations: Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Latest Emergency Reports United Nations: Peace and Security USAID Office of Transition Initiatives War-Torn Societies Project World Bank World Bank - Post-conflict: The Economics of Civil War, Crime, and Violence      Non-government organisations (NGOs)   ActionAid Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) Christian Aid Instituto Latinoamericano de Analisis del Conflicto International Alert International Crisis Group International Peace Academy Oneworld OXFAM Saferworld Save the Children Fund Washington Office on Latin America    Academic/Research organisations   Center on International Cooperation Center For Strategic & International Studies Cibera: Virtual specialist library, Ibero-america (in German and Spanish)   Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Governance & Social Development Resource Centre: a DFID-funded site on governance, conflict and social development ID21 - communicating development research INCORE - international conflict research, University of Ulster Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester Institute of Development Studies   International Relations and Security Network Overseas Development Institute The PARC - Performance Assessment Resource Centre PAWSS - The Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies SOAS The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway   Strategic Foresight Group, Mumbai SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

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