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Events:

Seminar series - Weds 10th Feb 'Infrastructural violence in urban Nicaragua' More

February 12th: as part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival, CSRC is co-hosting a debate on 'The Fiction of Development?'  More

Podcasts of  previous CSRC events are available here.

Recent Working Papers -

Maputo - new paper on nationalism and identity in Mozambique

Kampala - a paper analysing the institutional crisis in the city

Afghanistan - a new paper 'Negotiating with the Taliban'

Conflict and social protest in Colombia

Civil Society in Conflict Cities - the case of Ahmedabad

Eye of the Storm - cities in the context of Afghanistan's civil wars

New Publications:

Do No Harm: international support for state-building - a new OECD report co-authored by CSRC Director James Putzel

Youth Violence in Latin America - a new book co-authored by Dennis Rodgers, Associate Fellow with the CSRC.

The 'resource curse' in Venezuela - a new book by Jonathan DiJohn, Associate Fellow with the CSRC

Beyond Conflict: a new report on reconfiguring approaches to the regional trade in minerals from Eastern DRC

Fragile states: a new topic guide by GSDRC in collaboration with CSRC associates

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Crisis State Research Centre

 

The Crisis States Research Centre (CSRC) is a leading centre of interdisciplinary research into processes of war, state collapse and reconstruction in fragile states. By identifying the ways in which war and conflict affect the future possibilities for state building, by distilling the lessons learnt from past experiences of state reconstruction and by analysing the impact of key international interventions, Centre research seeks to build academic knowledge, contribute to the development of theory, and inform current and future policy making.

 

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The urban services challenge of post-war reconstruction in Kabul (Photo: Jo Beall)

  

"Just as it should not take the collapse of a state for the international community to act, so it should not take a full-fledged crisis to attract the media spotlight. We should not, by our action or inaction, by what we report or do not, send a message - especially to those countries and people in need who struggle along in good faith - that only widespread bloodshed or total dysfunction will get them attention and help."
                                                                            -- Kofi Annan

 

 

 

 

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