Robert Muggah

Robert Muggah is the Research Director of the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey and the Coordinator of the research project "States of fragility: The consequences of stabilization for humanitarian action" housed at the CCDP and sponsored in part by the Folke Bernadotte Academy.

Previously, he was Global Security and Cooperation Professional Fellow (SSRC) at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Muggah received his DPhil at Oxford University and his MPhil at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex. He is also an Associate of the Households in Conflict Network (UK), the Conflict Analysis Resource Centre (Colombia) and a principle of The SecDev Group (Canada). In addition to serving as an adviser to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, he has worked with multilateral and bilateral agencies in twenty countries including Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Lebanon, Nepal, Philippines, Papua New Guinea Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Timor-Leste.

His work is published in peer-reviewed and policy-relevant journals, academic volumes and the international media. Most recently, he is the author of Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War (New York: Routledge, 2009), Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka: A Short History of Internal Displacement (London: Zed Books, 2008),) and No Refuge: The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa (London: Zed Books 2006). As well as contributing chapters to the Small Arms Survey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) since 2001 and other edited volumes, he has published articles in International Peacekeeping, Security Dialogue, Contemporary Security Policy, The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, The Journal of Refugee Studies, The Journal of Disasters, Forced Migration Review and others.

• 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

• Securing and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War (New York: Routledge, 2009).
• “Once We Were Warriors: Refugee Militarization in Africa”, Human Security and Transitional Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• “Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR): No Post-conflict Panacea”, in Chetnail, V. Ed. Peacebuilding Lexicon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
• (with Keith Krause) “Closing the Gap Between Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Insecurity: Towards a Violence Reduction Agenda”, International Peacekeeping 16:1 (2009), pp.136-150.
• Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka: A Short History of Internal Displacement (London: Zed Books, 2008).
• “Containment or Protection: Considering Internal Displacement and Resettlement Regimes” in Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter, Grabska, K. and Metha, L. (eds.) (London: Palgrave Books, 2008).
• “The Perils of Changing Donor Priorities in Fragile States”, in Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Programme, J. Welsh and N. Woods (eds.) (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007).
• No Refuge: The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa. London: Zed Books, 2006).
• “Emerging from the Shadow of War: DDR and Arms Reduction during Post- Conflict,” Journal of Contemporary Security Policy Special Edition 25:2 (2006).
• “Disarmament: Supply and Demand Reduction” in International Law and International Relations T. Biersteker, P. Spiro and C. Sriram (eds.) (New York: Routledge, 2006).
• (with Keith Krause) “The True Measure of Success? Considering the Emergence of Human Security in Haiti” in Human Security: A Decade On, T. Shaw et al (eds.) (New York: Lynne Reinner, 2006).
• “Distinguishing Means and Ends: The Counterintuitive Effects of UNHCR’s Community Development Approach in Nepal”, Journal of Refugee Studies 18:2 (2005).