Phase 1 - Papers

 

Working Papers       Discussion Papers        Briefing Papers        Special Reports       Conference Papers        Others

Working Papers

Series 1

 

Title : Dominance and Retaliation in the Informal Structure of Authority: a comparative study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar

Working Paper No : 81 (series 1)

Author(s) : Rakesh Chaubey

Date : September 2006

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Title : A State of One's Own: secessionism and federalism in India

Working Paper No : 80 (series 1)

Author(s) : Neera Chandhoke

Date : September 2006

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Title :Explaining Manipur's Breakdown and Mizoram's Peace: the state and identities in North East India

Working Paper No : 79 (series 1)

Author(s) : M.Sajjad Hassan

Date :February 2006

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Title : State Failure and Success in Uganda and Zimbabwe: the logic of political decay and reconstruction in Africa

Working Paper No : 78 (series 1)

Author(s) : E.A. Brett

Date : February 2006

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Title : Rwanda's Ordinary Killers: interpreting popular participation in the Rwandan genocide
Working Paper No : 77 (series 1)

Author(s) : Omar McDoom

Date : December 2005

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Title : The Political Economy of Anti-Politics and Social Polarisation in Venezuela, 1998-2004

Working Paper No : 76 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan DiJohn

Date : December 2005

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Title : Of Broken Social Contracts and Ethnic Violence:  the case of Kashmir

Working Paper No : 75 (series 1)

Author(s) : Neera Chandhoke

Date :December 2005

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Title : The Country Behind the Ballot Box: the impact of political reform in Colombia during a humanitarian crisis

Working Paper No : 74 (series 1)

Author(s) : Marcela Ceballo & Ivan Romero

Date : December 2005

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Title : 'Populism' Visits Africa: the case of Yoweri Museveni and no-party democracy in Uganda

Working Paper No : 73 (series 1)

Author(s) : Giovanni Carbone

Date :December 2005

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Title : Subverting the Spaces of Invitation - local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires

Working Paper No : 72 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : October 2005

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Title : Urban Segregation from Below: drugs, consumption and primitive accumulation in Managua, Nicaragua

Working Paper No : 71 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : October 2005

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Title : Conflict, State and Decentralisation: from social progress to an armed dispute for local control, 1974-2002

Working Paper No : 70(series 1)

Author(s) : Fabio Sánchez and Mario Chacon

Date : October 2005

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Title : Law as a Tool: the challenge of HIV/Aids in Uganda

Working Paper No : 69 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jenny Kuper

Date : September 2005

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Title : Close Encounters of an Inner Asian Kind: Tibetan-Muslim co-existence and conflict in Tibet past and present

Working Paper No : 68 (series 1)

Author(s) : Andrew Fischer

Date : Sept 2005

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Title : The Ethnicisation of an Afghan faction: Junbesh-i-Milli from its orgins to the presidential elections

Working Paper No : 67 (series 1)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : Sept 2005

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Title : Re-stating the State:paramilitary territorial control and political order in Colombia (1978-2004)

Working Paper No : 66 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutierrez Sanin and Mauricio Baron

Date : Sept 2005

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Title : The Political Economy of Nicaragua's Institutional and Organisational Framework for Dealing with Youth Violence

Working Paper No : 65 (series 1)

Author(s) : José Luis Rocha Gómez

Date : June 2005

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Title : Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare': Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba (1989-2004)

Working Paper No : 64 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan Curry-Machado

Date : June 2005

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Title : Deconstruction without Reconstruction? The Case of Peru (1978-2004)

Working Paper No : 63 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Date : June 2005

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Title : The Effects of Decentralisation on Public Investment: Evidence and Four Lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Working Paper No : 62 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jean-Paul Faguet

Date : June 2005

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Title : Unintentional Democratisation? The Argentinazo and the Politics of Participatory Budgeting in Buenos Aires, 2001-2004

Working Paper No : 61 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : April 2005

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Title : Crafting Democracy and Good Governance in Local Arenas: Theory, Dilemmas, and their Resolution through the Experiments in Madhya Pradesh, India

Working Paper No : 60 (series 1)

Author(s) : Manoj Srivastava

Date : April 2005

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Title : Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa

Working Paper No : 59 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : January 2005

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Title : From Corporatism to Liberalisation in Zimbabwe: Economic Policy Regimes and Political Crisis (1980-1997)

Working Paper No : 58 (series 1)

Author(s) : E. A. Brett

Date : January 2005

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Title : Electoral Behaviour Trends and Decentralisation in Colombia's Municipalities, 1988-2000

Working Paper No : 57 (series 1)

Author(s) : Diana Hoyos & Marcela Ceballos

Date : December 2004

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Title : Business-led Peacebuilding in Colombia: Fad or Future of a Country in Crisis?

Working Paper No : 56 (series 1)

Author(s) : Angelika Rettberg

Date : December 2004

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Title : Security Communities and the Problem of Domestic Instability

Working Paper No : 55 (series 1)

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date :November 2004

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Title : Decentralisation and Engendering Democracy: Lessons from Local Government Reform in South Africa

Working Paper No : 54 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : November 2004

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Title : Postcolonial Workplace Regimes in the Engineering Industry in South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe

Working Paper No : 53 (series 1)

Author(s) : Andries Bezuidenhout

Date :November 2004

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Title : Critically Assessing Traditions: The Case of Meghalaya

Working Paper No : 52 (series 1)

Author(s) : Manorama Sharma

Date : November 2004

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Title : 'Good' State vs. 'Bad' Warlords? A Critique of State-Building Strategies in Afghanistan

Working Paper No : 51 (series 1)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : October 2004

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Title : The Absence of Common Values and Failure of Common Security in Southern Africa, 1992-2003

Working Paper No : 50 (series 1)

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : July 2004

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Title : The Legacies of Apartheid and Implications of Economic Liberalisation

Working Paper No : 49 (series 1)

Author(s) : Sarah Mosoetsa

Date : July 2004

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Title : Traditional Authority, Institutional Multiplicity and Political Transition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Working Paper No : 48 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall, Sibongiseni Mkhize & Shahid Vawda

Date : July 2004

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Title : A Geography of Illicit Crops (Coca Leaf) and Armed Conflict in Colombia

Working Paper No : 47 (series 1)

Author(s) : Ana María Díaz and Fabio Sánchez

Date :

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Title : The Political Economy of Economic Liberalisation in Venezuela

Working Paper No : 46 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan DiJohn

Date : June 2004

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Title : Representation, Participation and Development: Lessons from Small Industry in Latin America

Working Paper No : 45 (series 1)

Author(s) : Kenneth C. Shadlen

Date : June 2004

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Title : Understanding the Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of  Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Working Paper No : 44 (series 1)

Author(s) : Debby Bonnin

Date : June 2004

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Title : Rethinking Militarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Working Paper No : 43 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jacklyn Cock

Date : June 2004

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Title : Urban Fault Lines in Shangri-La: Population and Economic Foundations of Inter-Ethnic Conflict in the Tibetan Areas of Western China

Working Paper No : 42 (series 1)

Author(s) : Andrew Martin Fischer

Date : June 2004

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Title : Access to Justice: The Palestinian Legal System and the Fragmentation of Coercive Power

Working Paper No : 41 (series 1)

Author(s) : Tobias Kelly

Date : March 2004

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Title : Constructing Authority Alternatives in Colombia: Globalisation and the Transformation of Governance

Working Paper No : 40 (series 1)

Author(s) : Ann C. Mason

Date : January 2004

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Title : Ethnic Conflicts and Traditional Self-governing Institutions: A Study of Laitumkrah Dorbar

Working Paper No : 39 (series 1)

Author(s) : Apurba K. Baruah

Date : January 2004

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Title : Political Participation and War in Colombia: An Analysis of the 2002 Elections

Working Paper No : 38 (series 1)

Author(s) : Miguel García and Gary Hoskin

Date : November 2003

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Title : Demobilising Guatemala

Working Paper No : 37 (series 1)

Author(s) : David Keen

Date : November 2003

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Title : Developing Multi-Party Politics: Stability and Change in Ghana and Mozambique

Working Paper No : 36 (series 1)

Author(s) : Giovanni M. Carbone

Date : November 2003

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Title : Dying For It: Gangs, Violence and Social Change in Urban Nicaragua

Working Paper No : 35 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : October 2003

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Title : North African Islamism in the Blinding Light of 9-11

Working Paper No : 34 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : October 2003

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Title : Respectable Warlords? The Politics of State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan

Working Paper No : 33 (series 1)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date :September 2003

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Title : Violence and Drug Prohibition in Colombia

Working Paper No : 32 (series 1)

Author(s) : Carlos Medina & Hermes Martínez

Date : August 2003

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Title : What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’

Working Paper No : 31 (series 1)

Author(s) : Robert Hunter Wade

Date : June 2003

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Title : Peru's Failed Search for Political Stability

Working Paper No : 30 (series 1)

Author(s) : María Emma Wills and Maria Teresa Pinto

Date : June 2003

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Title : Decentralization and local government in Bolivia: an overview from the bottom up

Working Paper No : 29 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jean-Paul Faguet

Date : May 2003

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Title : From the Alliance for Progress to the Plan Colombia: a retrospective look at US aid to Colombia

Working Paper No : 28 (series 1)

Author(s) : Luis Eduardo Fajardo

Date : April 2003

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Title : Criminal Rebels? A discussion of war and criminality from the Colombian experience

Working Paper No : 27 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Date : April 2003

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Title : The dynamics of achieving 'power' and 'reform' as a positive-sum game: a report on the preliminary ethnographic explorations of the politics-governance nexus in Madhya Pradesh, India?

Working Paper No : 26 (series 1)

Author(s) : Manoj Srivastava

Date : March 2003

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Title : The Times of Democratic Involutions

Working Paper No : 25 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Date : March 2003 (revised January 2005)

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Title : Hyper-Fragmentation and Traditional Politics in Colombia: Discussing Alternative Explanations

Working Paper No : 24 (series 1)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Date : March 2003 (revised September 2004)

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Title : Emerging Pluralist Politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo party system

Working Paper No : 23 (series 1)

Author(s) : Giovanni M. Carbone

Date : March 2003

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Title : Tribal traditions and crises of governance in North East India, with special reference to Meghalaya

Working Paper No : 22 (series 1)

Author(s) : Apurba Baruah

Date : March 2003

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Title : Women in war and crisis zones - one key to Africa's wars of underdevelopment

Working Paper No : 21 (series 1)

Author(s) : Victoria Brittain

Date : December 2002

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Title : Mineral resource abundance and violent political conflict: a critical assessment of the rentier state model

Working Paper No : 20 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jonathan DiJohn

Date : December 2002

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Title : From Segmentarity to Opacity: on Gellner and Bourdieu, or why Algerian politics have eluded theoretical analysis and vice versa

Working Paper No : 19 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : December 2002

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Title : Politics, the state and the impulse for social protection: the implications of Karl Polanyi's ideas for understanding development and crisis

Working Paper No : 18 (series 1)

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : October 2002

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Title : Moral economy or moral polity? The political anthropology of Algerian riots

Working Paper No : 17 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : October 2002

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Title : Domesticating Leviathan: Sungusungu groups in Tanzania

Working Paper No : 16 (series 1)

Author(s) : Suzette Heald

Date : September 2002

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Title : Are donors to Mozambique promoting corruption?

Working Paper No : 15 (series 1)

Author(s) : Joseph Hanlon

Date : August 2002

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Title : "Since I am a Dog, Beware my Fangs": Beyond a 'rational violence' framework in the Sierra Leonean war.

Working Paper No : 14 (series 1)

Author(s) : David Keen

Date : August 2002

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Title : The state, tradition and conflict in the North Eastern states of India

Working Paper No : 13 (series 1)

Author(s) : John Harriss

Date : August 2002

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Title : Liberal theory, uneven development and institutional reform: responding to the crisis in weak states

Working Paper No : 12 (series 1)

Author(s) : E A Brett

Date : July 2002

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Title : Social Differentiation and Urban Governance in Greater Soweto: a case study of post-apartheid reconstruction

Working Paper No : 11 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw & Susan Parnell

Date : February 2002

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Title : The People Behind the Walls: Insecurity, identity and gated communitiees in Johannesburg

Working Paper No : 10 (series 1)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : February 2002

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Title : Governance and Conflict Management: implications for donor intervention

Working Paper No : 9 (series 1)

Author(s) : Benedict Latto

Date : February 2002

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Title : Subaltern Resurgence: a reconnaissance of Panchayat election in Bihar

Working Paper No : 8 (series 1)

Author(s) : Shaibal Gupta

Date : January 2002

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Title : Co-opting Identity: the manipulation of Berberism, the frustration of democratisation and the generation of violence in Algeria

Working Paper No : 7 (series 1)

Author(s) : Hugh Roberts

Date : December 2001

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Title : Making Danger a Calling: Anthropology, violence and the dilemmas of participant observation

Working Paper No : 6 (series 1)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : September 2001

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Title : Crisis States: South Africa in Southern Africa

Working Paper No : 5 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date : April 2001

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Title :Research in Latin America

Working Paper No : 4 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

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Title : Collaborative Research: States of Crisis in South Asia and on "Political Ethnography"

Working Paper No : 3 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

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Title : Research activities

Working Paper No : 2 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

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Title : Concepts and Research Agenda

Working Paper No : 1 (series 1)

Author(s) :

Date :April 2001

[Abstract]    [PDF - English]    [PDF - Español]


Discussion Papers

 

Title : The Political Consequences of Ethnic Mapping

Discussion Paper No : 14

Author(s) : Neera Chandhoke

Date : December 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The Debate on Warlordism: the importance of military legitimacy

Discussion Paper No : 13

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The Power of Justice, Justice as Power

Discussion Paper No : 12

Author(s) : Jon Lunn

Date : September 2005

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Title : The Frightful Inadequacy of Most of the Statistics

Discussion Paper No :  11

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : September 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Mediation and the African Union's Panel of the Wise

Discussion Paper No :  10

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : July 2005

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Title : Disrupting Democracy? Altering Landscapes of Local Government in Post-2000 Zimbabwe

Discussion Paper No :  9

Author(s) : Amanda Hammar 

Date : March 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Media Policy, Peace and State Reconstruction

Discussion Paper No :  8

Author(s) : Tim Allen & Nicole Stremlau 

Date : March 2005

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title :  The Political Impact of Globalisation and Liberalisation: Evidence Emerging from Crisis States Research

Discussion Paper No :  7

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : November 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Old Wine in New Bottles or New Wine in Old? Conceptualising Violence and Governmentality in Latin America

Discussion Paper No :  6

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : November 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Accounting for South Africa's Successful Transition to Democracy

Discussion Paper No : 5 

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date : June 2004

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Title : Moving Beyond 'Institutions Matter': Some Reflections on how the 'Rules of the Game' Evolve and Change

Discussion Paper No : 4 

Author(s) : March 2004

Date : Manoj Srivastava

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Democracy in the Desert: Civil Society, Nation Building and Empire

Discussion Paper No : 3 

Author(s) : Jean-Paul Faguet

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The 'new' imperialism and possibilities for coexistence

Discussion Paper No : 2

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The Politics of 'Participation': Civil Society, the State and Development Assistance

Discussion Paper No : 1 

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]


 

Briefing Papers

 

Title : The Continuities of Conflict in Peacetime

Briefing Paper No : 16

Date :February 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : North African Islamism after 9-11

Briefing Paper No : 15

Date : January 2004

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Political participation and civil war

Briefing Paper No : 14

Date : December 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Foreign aid, state stabilisation and counter-insurgency

Briefing Paper No : 13

Date : September 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Decentralization and Local Government

Briefing Paper No : 12

Date : September 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Social differentiation and urban governance

Briefing Paper No : 11

Date : July 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Insecurity, identity and gated communities

Briefing Paper No : 10

Date : July 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : The dynamics of achieving 'Power' and 'Reform'

Briefing Paper No : 9

Date : July 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Challenging the 'Criminal Rebel' thesis

Briefing Paper No : 8

Date : May 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Beyond a rational violence framework: Psychological causes of civil war violence

Briefing Paper No : 7

Date : May 2003

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Title : The emergence of post-civil war pluralist politics

Briefing Paper No : 6

Date : April 2003

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Title : Involution of democratic institutions

Briefing Paper No : 5

Date : March 2003

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Title : Community-based approaches to dealing with rural violence

Briefing Paper No : 4

Date : March 2003

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Women in War and Crisis Zones

Briefing Paper No : 3

Date : March 2003

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Title : Mineral-Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict

Briefing Paper No : 2

Date : March 2003

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Title : Tribal traditions and crises of governance

Briefing Paper No : 1

Date : March 2003

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Other Papers

 

Teddy Brett, 'Political Victories and Economic Defeats: Managing the Post-Election Crisis in Zimbabwe', a briefing from the Crisis States project Impact of Liberalisation on Zimbabwe
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Teddy Brett, 'Systemic Crises, Conflicting Interests and State Failure in Zimbabwe', notes from the Crisis States project Impact of Liberalisation on Zimbabwe
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Neera Chandhoke, Project Proposal from the Crisis States project Conflict and Institutional Change in India
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Neera Chandhoke, Note on Methodology from the Crisis States project Conflict and Institutional Change in India
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Rajesh Dev, A. K. Baruah & Manorama Sharma, 'Liberal democracy, tribal institutions and politics of representation: analysing the Nongkynrih Shnong Dorbar', draft paper from the Research in North East India project.
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Andrew Fischer, extended abstract of research project 'Population and political economy foundations of ethnic exclusion and conflict in contemporary Tibet'
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Gary Hoskin (with Rodolfo Masías & Marcela Galvis)
'Modelos de decisión y perfiles de votante en Colombia: Elecciones presidenciales, 2002' - from the Crisis States project: Elections, Democracy and Violence: the 2002 elections in Colombia
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Jenny Kuper, 'Law as a Tool: The Challenge of HIV/AIDS', background paper for the International Law in Situations of Crisis and Breakdown project.
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Carlos Mario Perea, 'El Parche es Parche: pandillas, pánicos y violencias', notes from the Crisis States project Identity, Gangs and Conflict: Youth Violence in Bogotá, Baranquilla & Nieva
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Angelika Rettberg, 'Business-led peace building in Colombia: fad or future of a country in crisis?', final report from the Crisis States project Building peace locally: business-led peace initiatives in Colombia
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Other academic papers written by those involved in Phase One of the Crisis States Programme can be found here.
 


 

Special Reports

 

James Putzel and Joost van der Zwan, 'Why Templates for Media Development do not Work in Crisis States',  (June 2006)
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En francais

 

Tim Allen and Mareike Schomerus, 'A Hard Homecoming: lessons learnt from the reception center process in northern Uganda', report commissioned by USAID and UNICEF for Management Systems International.
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Tim Allen, 'War and Justice in Northern Uganda: An Assessment of the International Criminal Court's Intervention' (February 2005).
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James Putzel, 'Institutionalising a Medical Response: HIV/AIDS and Governance in Uganda and Senegal'
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Conference Papers

 

The following are papers presented at the joint CSP/ZEF(Bonn) symposium, 'State Reconstruction and International Engagement in Afghanistan', held in Bonn, May 30th to June 1st 2003

Adam Pain:'Empire light - state light' - transforming the punctuated equilibrium or a pathway to extinction? an introductory paper to the symposium.
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Antonio Giustozzi: Re-building the Afghan Army.
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Jonathan Goodhand: From War Economy to Peace Economy?
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Patricia Gossman: The Past as Present: War Crimes, Impunity, and The Rule of Law
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Martin Lau: Islamic Law and the Afghan Legal System.
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Christine Noelle-Karimi: Local Perceptions of State and Law
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Conrad Schetter: Ethnicity and the political Reconstruction in Afghanistan
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Mark Sedra: New Beginning or Return to Arms? The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Process in Afghanistan.
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Barbara J. Stapleton: The Provincial Reconstruction Team Plan in Afghanistan: A New Direction?
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J. Alexander Thier: the Making of a Constitution in Afghanistan
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Ali Wardak: Jirga, Human Rights and Building Post-War Justice System in Afghanistan
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Bernt Glatzer: On the Anatomy and Fault Lines of the Afghan Conflict.
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