CSRC Seminar Series 2007/2008
Papers will be posted to this site one week prior to each seminar.
Seminars take place from 16.00 to 17.30 each week during term.   Room numbers are given in red.
These seminars are primarily for DESTIN research students and for DESTIN and CSRC staff.  However, a small number of places are reserved each week for DESTIN Masters students - if you would like to attend a particular seminar, please email csp@lse.ac.uk to reserve a place.


SUMMER TERM 2008

 

Wednesday 30th April - Room U110 (Tower One)
James Putzel and Stefan Lindemann
(Crisis States Research Centre)

'An Analytical Narrative of State-making in Tanzania'
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Wednesday 7th May - Room U110 (Tower One)
Sally Healy
(Chatham House)

'Troubled Peace Processes in the Horn of Africa'
 

Wednesday 14th May - Room U103 (Tower One)
Rachel Heyman

(Edinburgh University)

'Abandoned Orphan, Wayward Child: the UK and Belgium in post-1994 Rwanda'

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Wednesday 21st May - Room U103 (Tower One)
David French and Salah Khalil
(Westminster Foundation for Democracy)

Title: 'Are Effective Political Institutions an Essential Condition for Building Strong and Democratic States?'
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Wednesday 28th May - Room U103 (Tower One)
Claire Smith

(Crisis States Research Centre, LSE)

The Impact of Aid on the State: UNDP's "post conflict" recovery programme for the Maluku region in Indonesia'
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Wednesday 4th June - Room U103 (Tower One)
Antoine Buisson
(EHESS, Paris)
'State Building, Power Building and Political Legitimacy: the case of post-conflict Tajikistan'

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Wednesday 11th June - Room U103 (Tower One)

Charmaine Ramos

(CSRC)

"The Politics of Production: Philippine Coconut and Colombian Coffee production in the 20th Century"

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Wednesday 18th June - Room U103 (Tower One)  at 16.30 - NOTE LATER START TIME

Robert Templer

Asia Programme Director, International Crisis Group

'Pakistan: democratic transition on the rocks'

 


 

LENT TERM 2008

 

Wednesday 9th January - Room U208 (Tower One)
Jason Sumich
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'To Build a Nation: elite ideologies of modernity and nationalism in Mozambique'
 

Wednesday 16th January - Room U208 (Tower One)
Gabi Hesselbein
(Crisis States Research Centre)
'The Challenge of state-building in the DR Congo"
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Wednesday 23rd January
Seminar by invitation only.

 

Wednesday 30th January - Room V301 (Tower Two)
Brian Thomson

(Associate Fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House)
'Governance Reform in Sierra Leone'
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Wednesday 6th February - Room U108 (Tower One)
Ben French

(Crisis States Research Centre and DESTIN)
'Understanding the processes of urban violence'

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Wednesday 13th February  - Room U108 (Tower One)
Ben Moxham

(DESTIN)

'La Violencia continua: state rebuilding and crisis in Dili'
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Wednesday 20th February - Room U108 (Tower One)
Joe Hanlon

(Open University and Crisis States Research Centre)

'Mozambique: is this IMF "success" threatened by violence? What do data on poverty and lynchings tell us?'
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Wednesday 27th February - Room V301 (Tower Two)
Jonathan DiJohn
(Crisis States Research Centre and SOAS)

'State Resilience in Zambia'
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Wednesday 5th March - Room V308 (Tower Two)
Dennis Rodgers
(Crisis States Research Centre and Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester)

'An illness called Managua?  the city as a reflection of perverse national political settlements'
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Wednesday 12th March - CANCELLED - transport disruption due to bad weather
Rachel Heyman

(University of Edinburgh)

'Abandoned Orphan, Wayward Child: the UK and Belgium in post-1994 Rwanda'

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MICHAELMAS TERM 2007

 

Wednesday 10th October - Room U203 (Tower One)
Giovanni Carbone
(Universita degli Studi di Milan)
'Do all good things go together?  The political, economic and social consequences of democratisation'
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Wednesday 17th October - Room U210 (Tower One)
Tim Jacoby
(Manchester University)
'Cultural Immutability, Conflict and the Muslim Menace'
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Wednesday 24th October - Room U201 (Tower One)
Elliott Green

(DESTIN)

'Democracy, District Creation and Patronage in Uganda'
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Wednesday 31st October
Special lunchtime seminar in conjunction with DESTIN at 12.30 in Room V101 (Tower One)

Diane Davis

(MIT)

'Policing, Regime Change and Democracy: lessons from Mexico'
 

Wednesday 31st October - Room U210 (Tower One)
Suzette Heald
(CSRC Visiting Fellow)
Title:  Making Law in Rural Kenya

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Wednesday 7th November  - Room V112 (Tower Two)
Peter Uvin
(Tufts University)

'Life after war: grassroots perspectives on peace and governance in Burundi'
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Wednesday 14th November - Room U210 (Tower One)
Robert Picciotto
(Visiting Fellow, Kings College)
'Global Policy Framework for Conflict Prevention: progress and gaps'

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Picciotto Biography

 

Wednesday 21st November - Room V112 (Tower Two)
Lars Buur
(Danish Institute of International Studies)
'People's Party and People's Representation'

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Wednesday 28th November - Room U210 (Tower One)
Eric Morier-Genoud
(Oxford University)
'The Rise and Demise of Political Islam in Mozambique'
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Wednesday 5th December - Room U210 (Tower One)
Antonio Giustozzi

(CSRC)

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

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