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NEW! -  view our Policy page for details of the recent DFID 'Politics of Poverty' report, highlights of the associated conference,  and details of the new CSRC Policy Directions series

Visiting Fellow Prof Suzette Heald's film 'Law and War in Rural Kenya' has been accepted for the 30th NAFA International Festival of Ethnographic Film in Denmark this summer.

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Events:

Podcasts of previous CSRC events are available here.

Recent CSRC Papers -

Political Economy of Taxation - state resilience in Zambia since 1990

Elite Bargains and Civil War - case studies from Uganda and Zambia

Afghanistan - what is the relationship between Pakistan's ISI and Afghan insurgents?

Zambia - an analytical narrative on state resilience against the odds

Mozambique - why poverty is not being reduced. New paper.

New Publications:

'Southern Sudan at odds with itself" - a report from Mareike Schomerus and Centre Associate Tim Allen considering the post-election challenges for this area

'Promoting Legal Mineral Trade in Africa's Great Lakes region' - a new report from Centre Associate Nicholas Garrett

Do No Harm: international support for state-building - a new OECD publication for which CSRC Director James Putzel is lead author

Regional and Global Drivers of Conflict - policy paper for a World Bank seminar

 

 

 

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.  The Centre is based in the Development Studies Institute at LSE.  Find out more about our work under Research.

 

 

 

The Centre is funded by UKaid from the  Department for International Development.

 

 

 

 

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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 fully-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