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SUMMER TERM

 

Wednesday 25th April - DESTIN Seminar room V414
'Strong party, weak state? Frelimo and state survival through the Mozambican civil war'
Jason Sumich, Research Officer, Crisis States Research Centre

 

Wednesday 2nd May - Room U110
'The Perils of Emerging Statehood: civil war and state reconstruction in Tajikistan'
Anna Matveeva, Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre
Background paper (draft only, not for citation)

 

Wednesday 9th May - Room U110
'The Political Economy of Region Formation'
Alejandra Salas-Porras, Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre
Background paper (draft only, not for citation)
 

Wednesday 16th May - Room U110
'Security and Justice Institutions in Liberia: from state collapse towards institutions'
Till Blume, University of Konstanz
Background paper
 

Wednesday 23rd May - Room U110
'The International Community and Rwanda'
Linda Melvern, author and journalist

 

Wednesday 6th June - Room U210
'Decentralisation, Conflict and Local Governance in Colombia, 1974-2004'
Fabio Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes
Background paper

 

Wednesday 13th June - Room U210
'Secession in India'
Neera Chandhoke, University of Delhi

 

Wednesday 20th June - Room U210
'An Analytical Narrative of Zambia'
Jonathan DiJohn,  SOAS

 

Wednesday 27th June - Room U210
'State-building and Reconstruction in NE India'
Sajjad Hassan, Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre

 

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LENT TERM 2007:

 

Wednesday 10th January
Joe Hanlon (Open University)
'FRELIMO and the One Party State'
 

Wednesday 17th January
Special joint event with POLIS - presentation and panel debate in Room U8 (Tower One)
Allan Thompson (Carleton University, Ottawa)
'The Role of Media in the Rwandan Genocide'

 

Wednesday 24th January
Omar McDoom (DESTIN)
'The Micro-foundations of Ethnic Extremism and Radicalisation: insights from the Rwanda genocide.'.

 

Wednesday 31st January
Zoe Marriage (SOAS)
'Not Breaking the Rules, Not Playing the Game: international assistance to countries at war'
Download background paper.

 

Wednesday 7th February
Gabi Hesselbein (Crisis States Research Centre)
'Recent findings from an Analytical Narrative of DR Congo'

 

Wednesday 14th February
Stephen Ellis (Afrikastudiecentrum, Leiden)
'Crisis States in Africa: some issues of method and theory'
 

Tuesday 20th February
Rene Lemarchand (University of Florida)
'Burundi at the crossroads' 
Background Paper for seminar

 

Wedneday 21st February - Room U108 (Tower One)
Steve Graham (University of Durham)
'Cities as Battlespace: Global South urbanisation and the US revolution in Military Affairs'
Background paper for seminar (Draft only - not for citation)

 

Wednesday 7th March - Room U110 (Tower One)
Saad Yahya (Visiting Fellow at DESTIN)
'Overlapping Jurisdictions and Conflicting Ideals: Kampala as a metropolis in the making'
Background paper for seminar (not for citation)
 

Tuesday 13th March 
Sarah Lister (Visiting Fellow at CSRC)
'Local Governance in Afghanistan'
Background paper for seminar (not for citation)

 

Wednesday 14th March - Room D109 (Clement House)
Scott Bollens (University of California, Irvine)
'Cities, Nationalism and Democratisation'
Background paper for seminar

 

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MICHAELMAS TERM 2006

 

Wednesday 11th October
Maliq Simone
(Goldsmith's College)
'The Unrelenting City and the Political Capacities of those who may seem to have none'
Download paper

 

Wednesday 25th October
James Putzel
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Rise and Decline of the State in Congo-Zaire: a re-reading of history'

 

Wednesday 8th November
Antonio Giustozzi
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Politics of Insurgency in Afghanistan ,1979-2006: parties, 'tribes', warlords and states'

 

Wednesday 15th November
Jennifer Leith
(DFID, and Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre)
'Deconstructing Reconstruction: Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs)'

 

Wednesday 22nd November
Th?dore Trefon
(Mus? Royale de l'Afrique Centrale, Belgium)
'Why do administrations persist in failed states?: findings from urban Congo'

 

Wednesday 6th December
Monica Nogara
(UN-DESA, and Visiting Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Role of Media in Curbing Corruption in Uganda under Museveni: a variable performance?'