The following seminars were given during academic year October 2007 to September 2008.

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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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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