(Photo:
Nigel Stead, LSE)
Professor James Putzel is Director of the Crisis States Research Centre. He works on politics and development, with a focus on states under stress, post-war state reconstruction, and the politics of the HIV/AIDS crisis. He has research experience in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, has worked on the political economy of agrarian reform and is an expert on the government, history and economy of the Philippines.
Professor Jo Beall directs the 'Cities and Fragile States' research. She is a specialist on development policy and management, with expertise on urban social development and urban governance. Other interests include gender, social policy and international development, social exclusion and local responses to crisis and conflict. She has conducted extensive research in Southern Africa and South Asia and has advised and consulted for a range of international development agencies, national governments and non-governmental organisations. Prof Beall is currently based at University of Cape Town until April 2012.
Dr Antonio Giustozzi works on the security dimension of failed states and states in a critical situation. He also researches the political aspects of insurgency and warlordism and states' response. Recent additions to his fields of study are ethnopolitics and the study of administration building in recovering states. In recent years, he has mainly been working in and on Afghanistan.
Dr Gabi Hesselbein's research interests lie in the political economy of development. She has research experience in the Republic of Korea and in a number of African countries. She has conducted work on state failure and state reconstruction in Africa and is an expert on African economies and the history of the Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Wendy Foulds is the Centre Administrator and plays a key role in financial administration, programme management, and the day to day running of the Centre. She is the first point of contact for enquiries about the Centre.
Laura Collins is part-time Communications Officer for the Centre, with responsibility for disseminating the Centre's research to the policy community and organising public events.
Sean Fox (CSRC Scholarship Holder) is a Research Associate with the Crisis States Research Centre, as well as an LSE Fellow in the Development Studies Institute at LSE. He has worked as a consultant on urban poverty and development issues with Oxfam and Care International, and is currently working on a PhD that explores the relationship between patterns of urbanisation and state development in Africa. He is co-author (with Professor Jo Beall) of Cities and Development (Routledge 2009).
Charmaine Ramos (CSRC Scholarship Holder) is a Research Associate with the Crisis States Research Centre. She is working on a PhD that compares the political economy of resource mobilisation in Colombia and the Philippines and analyses how well this explains state resilience and trajectories of economic development in these two countries. Her research interests span issues in the interstices of economics and politics - including decentralisation and governance; and international trade and agriculture policy. Personal website.
Francisco Lara (CSRC Scholarship Holder) is a Research Associate with the Crisis States Research Centre. His work is focused on how leaders and citizens cope with conflict, violence and dislocation, with specific reference to the Philippines
Nicholas
Garrett is a
Research Associate with the Crisis
States Research Centre. He is
enrolled as a Heinrich-Boll-Foundation funded PhD Candidate at the
Freie Universitaet Berlin, where he writes under supervision of
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Chairman and
Transparency International Founder Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen on how to
mobilise the DR Congo's mineral wealth for sustainable development
processes. He has undertaken consultancies for multilateral
institutions (e.g. UNECA; World Bank), bilateral development
agencies (e.g. DFID; GTZ; BGR), NGOs and multi-stakeholder
initiatives (e.g. EITI), as well as the private sector to improve
the developmental impact of natural resource sectors in high-risk
environments. He is a founding director of
Resource Consulting Services.
Tom Goodfellow is a Research Associate with the Crisis States Research Centre, focusing on African cities. He is working on a PhD that explores differences in urban policy and planning between Kampala (Uganda) and Kigali (Rwanda). By examining differences in elite strategies for control of urban space and land in these rapidly growing capital cities, his research aims to shed light on why Kigali is being carefully planned while Kampala becomes increasingly dysfunctional, and what this indicates about broader development trajectories in the two countries. Tom also undertakes regular research for Oxfam as part of an ESRC collaborative scholarship, holds an MSc in International Relations from the LSE and has assisted on consultancy projects for a number of international NGOs.
Dominik Helling is a Research Associate with the Crisis States Research Centre. In his PhD he is working on (failed) state formation projects in the Horn of Africa, with a special focus on Somalia and Somaliland. His research interests concentrate on processes of state and nation building, the role of administration, and the potential constitutive influence warfare has on these dynamics. Personal website.
is Research Associate at the Crisis States Research Centre. He is working on a PhD that compares the inclusiveness of elite politics in Uganda and Zambia and analyses how well this explains trajectories of civil war vs. political stability in these two countries. His primary area of geographical specialisation is Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on states under stress, post-war reconstruction and water politics. He previously worked for the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) and has done consultancy work for Gesellschaft fuer technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the Environmental Policy Research Centre (ffu) in Berlin.
Dr Jonathan Di John specialised in development economics, institutional economics and the political economy of growth and development in Latin America, especially in Venezuela and Colombia. His research interests focus on political economy, especially concerning industrial strategy, taxation and tax reform, corruption, privatisation, oil economies, and conflict and war in mineral abundant economies. He has done consultancy work for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He currently lectures in political economy at SOAS.
Dr Dennis Rodgers is a social anthropologist by training, and has expertise on violence, crime (in particular youth gangs), local responses to political and economic crisis, urban poverty, and the work practices of UN bureaucracies. Other areas of interest include the epistemology and methodology of development research, and the construction of development knowledge. His primary area of geographical specialisation is Latin America (Nicaragua and Argentina), with a secondary interest in South Asia (India). He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Brooks World Poverty Institute and is currently based in Geneva.
Colombia -
the Centre works with The Instituto de Estudios Politicos y Relaciones Internacionales
(IEPRI)
at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in
Bogota. Research work in Colombia is under the direction
of Dr Francisco Gutierrez. He and his team have contributed to all three research themes
of the current programme and IEPRI hosted the 2008 annual Crisis
States Programme workshop.
India - Developing Countries Research Centre, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. Work in India is under the direction of Professor Neera Chandhoke and has contributed to the Cities and Fragile States theme. Praveen Priyadarshi from the DCRC is currently undertaking PhD study with the Crisis States research centre at LSE under the auspices of a Commonwealth Scholarship.
Pakistan - Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi. Haris Gazdar is coordinating research in Pakistan for the Cities and Fragile States dimension of the Crisis States Programme. He has a particular interest in migration studies, conflict and state fragility.
South Africa - Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Cape Town where Laurie Nathan is directing the Global and Regional Axes of Conflict dimension of the Programme. Laurie researches the causes of civil war; mediation as a means to ending these wars; regional security arrangements; and security sector reform. In addition, he is involved in some of these areas as a practitioner, with a geographical focus on Africa.
Tanzania - ARDHI University, Dar es Salaam. Research on Dar es Salaam is being coordinated with Prof Wilbard Kombe and has contributed to the Cities and Fragile States theme. The Crisis States programme will hold its annual workshop in Dar es Salaam in summer 2009.
Uganda - Makerere Institute of Social Research. Kampala. Senior Research Fellow, Dr Frederick Golooba-Mutebi is directing research in Uganda and Rwanda on behalf of the Crisis States Research Programme.
(Photo: Thomas Goodfellow)
Dr Giovanni Carbone is a Lecturer in Political Science at Universita degli Studi di Milano. His research interests lie in political institutions, ethnic politics and democratisation with a focus on Uganda and Mozambique.
Dr Joseph Hanlon is a Senior Lecturer in Development and Conflict Resolution at the Open University. He is a leading expert on Mozambique and on the roots of civil war and post-war interventions. He has also published widely on the issues of international aid and debt and has developed the concept of 'illegitimate debt'. His own website on Mozambique can be accessed here: http://www.open.ac.uk/technology/mozambique
Prof Suzette Heald is an anthropologist with long term research experience in Eastern and Southern Africa. She is currently working on two major projects. Firstly, on a book, Making Law in Rural Kenya, that will trace the social transformations in Kuria district over a period of 25 years and the development of a novel form of community government to control cattle raiding and the spread of small arms. This is associated with making a film on the movement - "Law and War in Rural Kenya" - to complement the written text. The film will have its first screening at the 30th NAFA International Festival of Ethnographic Film in Denmark in summer 2010. Read more about Professor Heald's research and publications here.
Dr Anna Matveeva is a consultant on conflict and peace-building with a particular expertise in Central Asia. She is undertaking research on the region for the Centre, with particular reference to Tajikistan.