Research Affiliates

Email: jerome.bachelard (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• African politics, democratization, governance reform, the fight against corruption, transparency and participation in public financial management and oil revenue management
• International aid, conditionality, civil society support, democracy promotion, electoral monitoring
• International norms diffusion, oil sector transparency norms, transnational advocacy networks 

• Middle East
• Humanitarianism
• International Affairs
• International Organizations

Email: blackd (at) dal.ca

• Canadian Foreign and Development Policies
• Development Assistance
• Human Security
• Human Rights
• Africa Policies of G8 Governments
• Southern Africa
• Sports and World Politics 

• Africa
• Peacebuilding
• Statebuilding
• Conflict Prevention
• International Organizations
• Organizational and Institutional Theory
• International Relations

• International aid for civil society in the Arab world
• The role of civil society in conflict-transformation
• Middle Eastern politics and society
• Palestinian politics
• Islamic social movements
• Critical analysis of the representation of Islam
• Understanding ethnocentrism in social sciences

• Transnational Shi‘ism
• Iraqi exile organisations
• Muslim politics and Islamic political movements
• Iraqi and Iranian history, politics, and society
• Muslim communities in Europe

• International Aid System: Actors, Instruments, Participation, North-South Relation, Challenges, Limits and Problems, Reforms
• Strategic Management in development contextes: Identification, Planification, Monitoring, Evaluation, Negotiation
• Articulation between Development Aid and Humanitarian Aid
• How to support Micro-Finance by the Aid System
• Capacity building / Role of adult training for development

Email: kondo (at) un.org

• Humanitarian and development dimensions of peacebuilding
• Emergency preparedness (in particular, contingency planning) and conflict prevention/peacebuilding
• Youth gangs and peace architecture
• Latin America and the Caribbean
   

Email: tlm (at) sandiego.edu

• rural-urban divides,
• urban development and conflict cities,
• trade and production networks,
• the relationship between productive and predatory actors,
• state formation and self-maintenance,
• land tenure,
• rebel and other social movements 

Email: brian.mcquinn (at) anthro.ox.ac.uk

Phone:+41 (0)78 915 2412

Email: pkm25 (at) cam.ac.uk 

• Security promotion and armed violence reduction in complex environments
• Risks and responses to population displacement and resettlement
• State-building, stabilization and fragility and the political economy of ‘securitization’
• Urbanisation and forms of institutional resilience

• Human rights and justice in transition environments
• Protection, in the context of humanitarian action, in crisis/disaster settings
• Afghanistan, Pakistan: evolving political and security situation
• Sovereignty: implications of evolving perspectives for humanitarian action
• Humanitarian action:  21st century challenges

• Violence (including in particular gangs)
• Illegal Economic Activity
• Urban Development
• Planning
• Spatial Inequality
• Local Politics
• Social Movements
• Governance
• Qualitative Research Methods
• The Social Construction Of Development Knowledge
• The Anthropology Of Development
• Latin America (Nicaragua, Argentina).

• Development, co-operation and aid policies
• Gender, women and public policies
• Knowledge, education and public policies
• Socio-Economic Consequences of Large-Scale Migrations