Insecurity and conflict
This theme brings together research which contributes to the growing recognition of the connections between process of economic development and the causes and dynamics of insecurity. It is concerned with methodological issues, including such topics as the measurement of inequality and vulnerability; conceptual issues, including conceptualising ‘security’ on individual, community, national and international levels; and, with empirical studies from around the developing world.
Research Projects associated with this Theme:
- Healthy Housing for the Displaced
- Deepening governance and widening 'spaces' for change: community participation and natural resources transparency in post-conflict West Africa
- Borderlands, Brokers and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka and Nepal: War to Peace Transitions viewed from the margins
- States of Emergency: Citizenship in Times of Crisis in Sierra Leone
- Living on the Margins: Using literary comics to understand the role of borderland brokers in post-war transitions
- Opening the door to formalization: small-scale diamond mining and rural economic development in Sierra Leone
- Borderlands, Brokers and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka and Nepal
- Reconceptualising conflict and peacebuilding: new ideas and actors in a changing world
- Youth livelihoods, activism and extractive industry in Sierra Leone
- Civil society, ethnic boundaries and theological resources: A case study of charismatic churches in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Discourses of affirmative action: A comparative study of India and Malaysia
- Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA) in Freetown: Food security and income generation in post-conflict Sierra Leone
- Beyond the resource curse?: Diamond mining, global capitalism and local development in post-conflict Sierra Leone
