Heather Marquette is Senior Lecturer in Governance in IDD. Her areas of research include comparative politics; political development; African politics; state-building and governance in difficult environments; corruption, good governance and ‘moral politics’; donor approaches to anti-corruption reform; discourses on citizenship; and applied political analysis. She directs IDD’s International Political Economy of Development programme and is … Continue reading “Religion and Attitudes Towards Corruption in a Globalised World”
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Two Years On: Reflecting on a Victor’s Peace in Sri Lanka
Oliver Walton is a research fellow in the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. His areas of interest include NGO legitimacy, civil society peacebuilding, conflict prevention, war-to-peace transitions, and Sri Lankan politics. The military victory of the Sri Lankan armed forces over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009 marked the end of … Continue reading “Two Years On: Reflecting on a Victor’s Peace in Sri Lanka”
Re-integrating ex-combatants in Nepal
Paul Jackson is Professor of African Politics and Head of IDD. His current research interests include the nature of the liberal state and the politics of liberal state-building in post-conflict situations; security sector reform and the relationship between security and development; external intervention in security issues; and governance and security. Nepal has had a traumatic … Continue reading “Re-integrating ex-combatants in Nepal”
State-Society Relations and Citizenship
Huma Haider is a research fellow in the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. Her areas of interest include transitional justice in the context of peacebuilding; coexistence and reconciliation in divided societies; and diaspora, identity and citizenship. This post is based on a new topic guide supplement published by the GSDRC on state-society relations and … Continue reading “State-Society Relations and Citizenship”
Rwanda’s Upcoming Presidential Elections
Danielle Beswick is a lecturer in IDD. Her research interests include management of political space and debate in a post-genocide society, Rwanda’s relationship with the UK, and Rwandan foreign and security policy in Africa, including contributions to peacekeeping. She teaches Conflict in Developing Countries and Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development and co-convenes a module on … Continue reading “Rwanda’s Upcoming Presidential Elections”
Understanding Faith-based Organisations in Pakistan
Nida Kirmani is a research fellow in the Religions and Development Research Programme. Her primary research interests are related to religion, gender and development in South Asia. This article outlines current research into the characteristics and activities of faith-based organisations in Karachi, Pakistan, carried out as one component of the Religions and Development Research Programme. … Continue reading “Understanding Faith-based Organisations in Pakistan”
Afghanistan and the resource curse
Oliver Walton is a research fellow in the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre. His areas of interest include NGO legitimacy, civil society peacebuilding, conflict prevention, war-to-peace transitions, and Sri Lankan politics. On the surface, recent announcements of the discovery of about one trillon dollars worth of mineral resources in Afghanistan might seem like a … Continue reading “Afghanistan and the resource curse”
Ten years into the Millennium Development Goals: another tipping point?
Michael Hubbard is Reader in Development Economics and a specialist in public economic management, international aid management, and agriculture policy reform. In this blog post, he comments on the mood in the run up to the Millennium Development Goals summit, 20-22 September in New York No one predicted collapse of the Soviet Union, global freeze … Continue reading “Ten years into the Millennium Development Goals: another tipping point?”
Will the change of government affect UK aid policy?
Philip Amis is a specialist in urban poverty and institutional reform. Here at the University of Birmingham we feel we have been part of the recent UK election. The University’s Great Hall, which former students will remember as a venue for sitting exams and for graduation ceremonies, was transformed into a television studio for the … Continue reading “Will the change of government affect UK aid policy?”
Women, Religion and Attitudes Towards Corruption
Dr Heather Marquette is leading an international team researching ‘Religion, Ethics and Attitudes Towards Corruption’, with colleagues from the Centre for West African Studies, Universities of Hyderabad (India) and Ibadan (Nigeria), and the Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research Since 1996, when World Bank president James Wolfensohn spoke out against the ‘cancer of corruption’, … Continue reading “Women, Religion and Attitudes Towards Corruption”