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The paradoxical “selfishness” of aid – Karl Muth on stifling development
“Why do certain countries develop?” asks Karl Muth, a recent PhD graduate and now Lecturer in Economics, Public Policy and Statistics at Northwestern University. In his TEDx talk, ‘International...
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Get on the Ground: Tim Allen on the importance of fieldwork
In the following interview, published last year in The Economist, Tim Allen talks about the importance of fieldwork, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and combatting ignorance in the international...
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Justice in the world’s most difficult places – JSRP
Dr Anna Macdonald introduces the Justice and Security Research Programme’s newly published Special Issue on the local realities of law and justice. Reposted from the JSRP. How people living in the...
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Africa at LSE: Inaugural LSE PfAL Forum takes place in Kampala in January 2016
Youth empowerment and promoting African intellectualism will be the subjects under discussion at the inaugural LSE PfAL Forum which takes place in Kampala, Uganda on 14 and 15 January 2016. The PfAL...
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UN International Mother Language Day – Africa Educational Trust on the...
Sunday 21 February is UN International Mother Language Day. To mark this event the Africa Educational Trust have written a post for the LSE International Development blog outlining why education in...
View ArticlePrecolonial Political Centralization and Contemporary Development in Uganda
In his latest article Dr Elliott Green looks at the role of “Precolonial Political Centralization and Contemporary Development in Uganda”. Below is a summary of the article, the full text can be found...
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New Book: After Rape by Dr Holly Porter
On Tuesday the 9th of May, Dr Holly Porter will be launching her new book, After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda, at The London School of Economics. Following the ICC...
View ArticleBetween Authoritarianism and Democracy
In a recent article for Political Violence at a Glance, Alexander Beresford (University of Leeds), Marie E. Berry (University of Denver) and Laura Mann (LSE) summarise their recent paper: Liberation...
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Self-help psychosocial interventions for refugees in northern Uganda: a...
PhD candidate, Costanza Torre refers to her ethnographic fieldwork in which she investigates self-help psychosocial interventions for refugees in northern Uganda and questions whether, although...
View ArticleIndustrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern...
Dr Elliott Green tells us about his new book Industrialization and Assimilation: understanding ethnic change in the modern world, which explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that,...
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