Conflict Zone from the LSE
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Conflict Zone from the LSE
Cutting edge research into the drivers of intractable conflict. Our researchers bring together the big ideas and concepts needed to understand the causes of organised violence in the twenty-first century. We expose the political economy of organised violence: the networks of money and power that sta...
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S3 Ep6: Amid scandal, protest and geopolitical stress: where is Ukraine's economy going?
In this episode of the LSE Conflict Zone podcast, host Maliek Banat talks to Brian Milakovsky, an associate researcher with the PeaceRep-Ukraine progr...
S3 Ep5: Ukraine and Russia: who is winning on the economic front?
In this special episode, Dr Luke Cooper, the director of our Ukraine research programme sits down with the host to unpack how the war in Ukraine is tr...
S3 Ep5: Ukraine in 2025 - what now?
With the return of Donald Trump in the White House – and his insistence that Kyiv and Moscow strike a peace deal “in 24 hours – huge uncertainty now h...
S3 Ep4: Fragmentation of fragile peace: Political Marketplace in Ethiopia
The outlook on lasting peace in Ethiopia has been grim since the cessation of active hostilities in November of last year. A peace agreement between t...
S3 Ep3: State Collapse and the Shrinking of Civic Space under the Taliban: The Politics of Knowledge in Afghanistan
In the aftermath of the Republic’s collapse, a lack of shared understanding of policy priorities and effective civic interventions is impeding develop...
S3 Ep2: From the Revolution of Dignity to Full-Scale War: Civic Resistance in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is an ‘axial event’ in twenty-first century history, in which the agency of Ukrainians will have, one way or another, a tremendous...
S3 Ep1: Where are Our Mangoes? Local-driven Contestation of Predatory Practices in South Sudan’s Resource Extraction
In slightly more than a decade of independence, South Sudan has endured civil war and a shaky peace agreement that leaves over 11 million South Sudane...
S2 Ep5: The logics of conflict in the DRC: from the mineral to the checkpoint economy
Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been associated with mineral wealth. Indeed, the country is hugely rich in natural resourc...
S2 Ep4: Decolonising conflict research in the Global South: reflections and dialogues
Conflict research as a subject area has often been prone to colonial mindsets and thinking. In a world in which power disparities between wealthy stat...
S2 Ep3: What happens when the oil runs out? Traumatic decarbonisation in South Sudan
The transition away from fossil fuels is one of the major questions facing humanity in this century. In many states globally, this is presented as bot...
S2 Ep2: Investigating the oil rush in Somalia
Somalia is one of the world's poorest countries. It has suffered from a problem of persistent, intractable violence since the 1980s. But there is a ne...
S2 Ep1: Ten years of war in Syria: an enquiry into the rights and wrongs of ‘intervention’
Syria is often seen as a tragic case of "non-intervention". One of several examples of where the international community failed to protect civilians f...
S1 Ep6: What works? Exploring the role of local peace agreements in contemporary conflict resolution
It can be hard not to get lost in the horror when studying societies experiencing violent conflict. And it can easily lead to the conclusion that 'not...
S1 Ep5: What works? Effective security sector reform in conflict situations
State violence and repression can be a particular problem in conflict and post-conflict societies. Constructing democratic and legitimate public autho...
S1 Ep4: Opportunities for peace and democracy: civicness in conflict societies
In conflict and post-conflict situations it can be easy to get lost in the horror faced by many people in these societies. But we should be wary of th...
S1 Ep3: Identity politics and the political marketplace
It is commonplace to see inter-communal, religious or ethnic conflict as an important factor in war ravaged countries. But the discussion of these fea...
S1 Ep2: Buying and selling politics: the political marketplace and its adversaries
Countries experiencing intractable conflict often exhibit high levels of corruption. Politics becomes a question of buying and selling support amongst...
S1 Ep1: How is war changing? Organised violence in the 21st century
How is war changing in the twenty-first century? What makes contemporary organised violence distinct from past conflicts? In this podcast, the first i...