Research
The Statehood & Conflict program is home to three research projects that look from different angles at how state and non-state institutions of social and political regulation are formed, how they change over time and how they interact with conflict. Two of them focus on state governance in conflict and post-conflict contexts, while a third one deals with the role of institutions in managing and regulating conflicts linked to changes in the environment. These projects are part of the NCCR North-South and the related ProDoc program on 'Global Change, Innovation, and Sustainable Development' and lead to a number of publications.
Research Projects
Environmental Conflicts Revisited
Negotiating Statehood
Making Peace, Constructing States
Academic Conferences
The members of the 'Statehood and Conflict' team take active part in academic conferences on topics or countries and regions of interest to the program. See all conferences
Laurent Goetschel and David Lanz, 2011.
Natural born peacemakers? Ideas and identities in the foreign policies of small states
Panel at the 2011 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Reykjavik, 25-27 August 2011. details
Didier Péclard, 2011.
Making War, Building States. Critical perspectives on conflict and statehood in Africa
Panel at the AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, Uppsala, 15-18 June 2011. details
Didier Péclard, 2011.
Strong States, Weak Societies? Africa and the return of the developmental state
Panel at the AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, Uppsala, 15-18 June 2011. details
David Lanz, 2011.
Constructing the Responsibility to Protect in Darfur: Global Civil Society's Answer to War?
Paper presentation at the Annual Conference International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 16-19, 2011.
Martina Santschi, 2011.
Chiefs in-between Tradition and Modern Governance. Chiefs and Local Government in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal, Southern Sudan
"Translations of Travelling Legal, Organisational, and Technological Models in African Contexts", which will take place at the Golden Tulip Hotel Flamenco in Cairo, Egypt, in the period 28 Feb -4 March 2011. abstract
