Definitions of the terms 'fragile', 'crisis' and 'failed' state, as used by the Crisis States Research Centre.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS -
Monday 19th February - public lecture by Prof Rene Lemarchand 'From Kabila to Kabila: what else is new?'  Prof Lemarchand is a leading scholar on ethnicity and clientilism and an expert on the Great Lakes region of Africa.  More.

SEMINARS - details of CSRC seminars for Lent Term.

RESEARCH - the Centre commenced Phase 2 of the DfID-funded Crisis States Programme in 2005.  Research is centred around three themes:
Development as State-making
Cities in Conflict
Regional and Global Axes of Conflict

RECENT PUBLICATIONS -
Iraq - the first of the Centre's new Occasional Paper series is a paper by Tim Dyson on "On the Death Toll in Iraq since 1990".

Mozambique - the Centre's latest Working Paper examines allegations of fraud in the 2004 Presidential elections.

Urban Poverty & Development in the 21st Century - a report for Oxfam written by Jo Beall and Sean Fox from the CSRC Cities team.

Local ownership of security sector reform : a guide for donors - a publication by Laurie Nathan,  Visiting Fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre, was commissioned by the British Government's Global Conflict Prevention Pool. It provides political and practical guidance to donor governments that support security sector reform in post-conflict countries and new democracies. The book includes country case studies by different authors on Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Africa.

Working Papers - ongoing research from the CSRC team.

Discussion Papers - a series intended to stimulate discussion around issues related to the Centre's work.

Other Crisis States Papers - reports, seminar papers and other related material.

Useful links

DFID Research for Development website.

Journal for International Development

Development Studies Association

HIV/AIDS crisis
Material relating to the pandemic

Karl Polanyi Research Network
Discussion Forum

Crisis in Iraq
Discussion Forum

Crisis in Argentina Website
Reports from Argentina by Dr Dennis Rodgers

Children in Armed Conflict - a Nuffield-funded site prepared by Dr Jenny Kuper as a resource for military officers.  Dr Kuper's work for the Crisis States Research Centre can be found here.