Ian Bannon Is the Manager of the Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit in the World Bank

Tony Atkinson

Tony Atkinson is Warden of Nuffield College at University of Oxford and is an expert on Public Economics. His research interests are economics of income distribution, poverty and security.

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Karen Ballantine

Karen Ballantine is from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARDNI) Permanent Secretary’s Office.

Ian Bannon

Ian Bannon is the Manager of the Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit in the World Bank. He is an economist by training, with studies in the University of Chile in Santiago and Sydney University in Australia. He has had an extensive career in the World Bank, having worked in South Asia, Africa and Latin America.

In his previous assignment he worked as Lead Economist for Central America, where he was actively involved in post-conflict reconstruction and supporting poverty strategy processes in Nicaragua and Honduras. Recent publications include "Central America: Education Reform in a Post-Conflict Setting" (with Jose Marques); "The Role of the World Bank in Conflict and Development" (forthcoming), and editor with Paul Collier of the book "Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions".

Jo Boyden

Jo Boyden's initial research interest was the impact of capitalist development on social organisation and structure in the central Peruvian Andes. In June 2005 she became the director of the Young Lives Project, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Vietnam, India, Ethiopia and Peru.

For many years she was a social development consultant to a broad range of development and humanitarian relief agencies, governmental, non-governmental and inter-governmental, in Southeast and South Asia, the Andean region and parts of Africa. This work entailed a mix of primary and secondary research, advocacy, training, planning, monitoring and evaluation. Drawing on field work in South Asia, she conducted research at the RSC on children's and adolescent's experiences of armed conflict and forced migration. The focus of this research was the development of theory and empirical evidence on risk, resilience and coping in childhood, young people's economic, political and social roles and responsibilities, and social and cultural constructions of childhood and youth. She was trained at University College London (BSc Hons., 1973), Cambridge University and the London School of Economics (PhD., 1983).

Paddy Coulter

Paddy Coulter is Director of Studies at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Green College, Oxford. Paddy previously worked (between 1990 and 2001) as Director of the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), a specialist independent television production company, producing programmes on global affairs for BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and leading broadcasters around the world. He is currently a Senior Associate at Oxford University's international development centre, Queen Elizabeth House and an Associate Fellow of the University’s Environmental Change Institute. He is also Chair of Broadcasting Support Services (BSS), Trustee of the Media Trust/ Community Channel and Fahamu.

Giovanni Andrea Cornia

Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia received a masters degree in economics in 1970 and a doctorate in quantitative economics in 1975, both at the University of Bologna. He initially worked for three years at the Economic Studies Centre of FIAT, the Italian multinational. Before joining in 1981 the UNICEF headquarters in New York as a Senior Economist, he held research positions for various lengths of time at the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe, the Economic Commission for Latin America and UNCTAD. Between 1989 and mid 1995, he was the Director of the Economic and Social Policy Research Programme at the International Child Development Centre, UNICEF's world-wide research institute located in Florence, Italy.

Professor Cornia has lectured extensively on development issues in both developing and developed countries, and held visiting professorships in development or transitional economics at the universities of Florence, Pavia and Helsinki, the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, the European University Institute and the Master Programme of the European School for Advanced Studies of the University of Pavia. He is, or has been, a member of the editorial board of a few journals (at present, Journal of International Development, Oxford Development Studies and Moct-Most) and serves regularly as referee for a few scientific reviews.

His work has focused primarily on macroeconomic, distributive, poverty and human capital issues in developing countries. He has also done work on welfare and human resource development in both developing and industrialized countries, and - as of 1989 - on macroeconomic and distributive issues in transitional economies. His writings include works on growth models, land reform and savings behaviour in developing countries, human resource development, adjustment and development models, poverty and food consumption, patterns of and approaches to the transition to the market economy, and poverty in the industrialized countries.

Christopher Cramer

Christopher Cramer is Professor in Development Studies, Programme Convenor for the MSc Violence, Conflict and Development, and Chair of the Centre of African Studies of the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Christopher has taught at Cambridge and Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique and has also worked in South Africa. His research interests include the political economy of conflict, rural poverty and rural labour markets, privatisation, and the economics and politics of commodity processing in developing countries. He has done consultancy work for the ILO, UNDP (UN Development Programme), UNCTAD (UN Commission on Trade, Aid & Development), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN), IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), the European Commission, SIDA, the World Bank, and the Ethiopian Government. His 2006 book, Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries is published by Hurst (London) and published in the USA as Violence in Developing Countries: War, Memory, Progress, Indiana University Press (2006).

Corrine Caumartin

Corrine Caumartin is CRISE Research Officer for Latin America. Her research interests are on Latin American politics, comparative politics, public security, civil-military relations, policing and police reform. Her current research is on ethnicity, conflicts and horizontal inequalities in Peru, Bolivia and Guatemala with special focus on Guatemala.

Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval

Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval is the Head of Division, Agricultural Policies in Non-Member Countries, Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Adolfo Figueroa

Adolfo Figueroa is CRISE research partner in charge of Peru. He is also Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Peru. His research interests are the economics of inequality, labor markets and rural development. His current researches are on inequality, political instability and ethnicity in Peru, and path dependence in economic development – a theoretical and empirical approach.

Matthew Gibney

Matthew J. Gibney is is a graduate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and completed an M.Phil and a Ph.D. at Cambridge University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He has taught politics at Monash, Cambridge and Harvard universities. He has been a Visiting Academic at Northwestern University in Illinois and at the Faculty of Law at Monash University. At the RSC, he teaches two courses on the M.Sc in Forced Migration, “Liberal Democratic States and the Evolution of Asylum” and “Ethical Issues in Forced Migration”. Since 1999 he has been Director of the International Summer School in Forced Migration (with the exception of 2005).

He has written many articles and chapters on asylum and immigration and their relationship to issues of ethics, security and the liberal democratic state. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Forced Migration Review, Government and Opposition, and a range of other journals. His books include, Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Oxford University Press 2003), which has been translated into Spanish and Italian; The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees (Cambridge University Press 2004); and (with Randall Hansen) a three-volume encyclopedia entitled, Immigration and Asylum From 1900 to the Present (ABC-Clio 2005). His current research focuses on history and future development of asylum in liberal democratic countries; normative and political issues associated with forced migration, voluntary migration, and citizenship; political institutions in deeply divided societies; and the historical development of the idea and practice of deportation.

Terence Gomez

Edmund Terence Gomez specializes in state-market relations and the linkages between ethnicity, politics and capital development. He received a doctorate in Development Studies from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 1993. He joined UNRISD in June 2005 as Research Co-ordinator of the programme area Identities, Conflict and Cohesion.

Prior to his appointment at UNRISD, Terence was Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, which he joined as a lecturer in 1994 and where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on the developmental state and social change, Malaysia’s political economy, and state, business and ethnicity in Southeast Asia. He has held appointments as Visiting Fellow at the Asian Studies Department, Murdoch University, Australia (January-December 1993), as Senior Research Fellow at the Department of East Asian Studies, Leeds University, United Kingdom (1996-1999), and as Visiting Professor at Kobe University, Japan (May-August 2002). Other academic appointments include a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra (February 2002) and a Visiting Fellowship at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Denmark (October-November 2004). Terence has also undertaken various research projects and convened numerous international conferences--among others, on political-business linkages in East Asia; the growth of national and transnational ethnic Chinese enterprise; the history of Chinese communities and their enterprises in Australia, Britain and Southeast Asia; and ethnic conflict and social cohesion in Asia--all of which have received funding from local and international agencies, including the Sasakawa, Sumitomo and Toyota Foundations of Japan, the Department of Education and Training in Australia, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the United Kingdom. Terence currently serves on the editorial board and advisory committee of the following international journals: Journal of Development and Society, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Taiwan Journal of Southeast Asian Studies andJournal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. He is also editor of the “Chinese Worlds” Series and the “Malaysian Studies” Series for RoutledgeCurzon, London.

Jonathan Goodhand

Jonathan Goodhand is Senior Lecturer in Development Practice and Admissions Tutor MSc VCD,Department of Development Studies. He studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Manchester, with qualifications in education as well as development. He worked for some years managing humanitarian and development programmes in conflict situations in Afghanistan/Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and has extensive experience as a researcher and advisor in South and Central Asia for a range of NGOs and aid agencies, including DFID, SDC, ILO and UNDP. His research interests include the political economy of aid and conflict, NGOs and peacebuilding and ‘post conflict’ reconstruction.

Yvan Guichaoua

Yvan Guichaoua is CRISE Research Officer for West Africa. His current research interests include ethnic militias in West Africa, the social and economic determinants of youth enlistment in violent groups and the political economy of oil in Nigeria. He has worked in Cote d'Ivoire on the urban informal sector and youth access to the labour market.

Adam Higazi

Adami Higazi is a Doctoral Student in International Development whose research areas are on communal violence in Nigeria; religion, indigeneity and local politics in Nigeria; vigilantism and militias; anthropological perspectives on conflict; migration.

Kwesi Jonah

Kwesi Jonah is Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies at the University of Ghana and is acting head of the of the Centre of Governance of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).

Victor Lal

Victor Lal is based at the University of Oxford where he reads law and international relations and politics. He was previously Reuters, Wingate and Research Fellow at Oxford, where he specializes in race, politics, conflict and constitutionalism in multi-ethnic states. He is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College, London. He was Nobel Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and was a team member on ‘Project 1905: Swedish-Norwegian Relations for 200 Years’, hosted by the Department of History, University of Oslo, Norway. Victor Lal has also held Visiting Fellowships at the universities in Norway, South Africa, Australia, and his native Fiji Islands. Among his publications include Fiji: Coups in Paradise-Race, Politics and Military Intervention. He is completing a book on East African Indians and the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, and a commissioned Historical Dictionary of Fiji. His research interests include the Indian Diaspora, Mahatma Gandhi and the Jews in South Africa, constitutional and public international law, Scandinavian, Fijian and African history, and the history and politics of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Christopher McCrudden

Christopher McCrudden received his legal education in Belfast (LL.B.), Yale University (LL.M.), and Oxford (D.Phil.). He has been a fellow of the College since 1980. He is currently also a Professor in Human Rights Law in the University and a (non-practising) barrister (Gray's Inn).

His main interests are in the fields of constitutional, administrative, and comparative public law, with a particular specialisation in human rights law. He is currently working on aspects of the relationship between aspects of regulation and human rights, and has publications forthcoming on for example, the use of public procurement for social purposes, regulatory developments in British law, and human rights in Northern Ireland.

He combines this academic research with an interest in making connections between theory and practice. He has served on several governmental committees, including the (Northern Ireland) Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights and the European Commission's group of legal experts on equality law.

He is also a member of the editorial board of several scholarly publications, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Butterworths' law in Context series.

He is a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

Luca Mancini

Luca Mancini is CRISE research office in Applied Econometrics. His research areas include applied econometrics, economics of civil conflict, and inequality. His current researches are: Ethnicity, horizontal inequalities and violent conflict in development countries; Perceptions survey of group identity, attitude to ethnicity and group performance; Multidimensional inequality; and Horizontal inequalities and communal conflict in India.

Thandika Mkandawire

Thandika Mkandawire is Director of UNRISD. He is an economist with a long experience in the promotion of comparative research on development issues. From 1986 through 1996, he was Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), headquartered in Dakar. Thandika is a member of the editorial boards of Africa Development; Africa Review of Books; Development and Change; Global Governance;Journal of Development Studies; Journal of Human Development and Oxford Development Studies,and has recently served on the executive committees of the International Institute for Labour Studies, the Swedish NGO Fund for Human Rights, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) of the International Social Science Council, Care International, the Steering Committee of the UNU Project on Intellectual History, and the African Gender Institute. Thandika, who was also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen, took up his post as UNRISD Director in May 1998.

George Gray Molina

George Gray Molina holds a PhD in Politics from Oxford University and is currently with UNDP in Bolivia. His research interests are on poverty, inequality, decentralisation and citizen participation. His current research includes “Politics of Accommodation in Bolivia: Ethnicity, Class and Regional Cleavages 1900-2000”, “ Inequality, Ethnicity and Determinants of Conflict: Household Surveys 1989-2002”, and “Broad-based Growth in Bolivia: Micro and Macro Determinants 1985-2003.” He is also a CRISE research partner in Bolivia.

Maxine Molyneux

Maxine Molyneux is the Senior External Adviser of the UNRISD project on Gender Justice, Development and Rights.

Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London where she directs a Masters Degree in Globalization and teaches courses on Society and Development, and Gender and Politics in Latin America. She was awarded her Phd in Sociology at the University of Essex in 1983 where she taught for many years before taking up posts at the University of London, first at Birkbeck College (Politics and Sociology Department) then at ILAS where she has been since 1994. She has written extensively in the fields of feminist theory, politics and development studies and her essays have been published in ten languages. A long-standing commitment to comparative research is reflected in her publications: an early interest in socialist states led to monographs on the Ethiopian Revolution and on South Yemen. Recent work has been on three principle areas, that of post-socialist transitions, Latin American democratisation, and a series of comparative studies of gender, citizenship and state formation. Her current work is on issues of gender, rights and justice in Latin America. She was a co-founder of Feminist Review, and is an editor of Economy and Society. She has acted as a consultant to several UN agencies in Europe and Latin America, as well as to Oxfam and other NGOs. She has recently completed two research projects, one for UNRISD with Shahra Razavi and one with Sian Lazar, for the British government's Department for International Development, on themes of women’s rights in cross cultural settings both of which are to be published as books.

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr was a Research Fellow in theScience, Technology and Globalization Project, an activity of theScience, Technology and Public Policy Program. As a development economist, her work focuses on policies for equitable development using a multidisciplinary approach. Between 1995 and 2004, she was director of the annual Human Development Reports commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). These research-based publications are known for their innovative measurement, concepts, and policy proposals on emerging development challenges, covering diverse themes such as Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World (2002), Making New Technologies Work for Human Development (2001); Human Rights (2000); Globalization (1999). She is co-editor of Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm. She is founding editor of the Journal of Human Development: Alternative Economics in Action and is on the editorial board of Feminist Economics.