Introduction: security in the vernacular and peacebuilding at the margins; rethinking violence reduction
Researchers are examining how and why local peace-building efforts succeed in minimising violence in contexts where there are large new investments, focusing on the remote rural areas of Kenya and Sierra Leone, and its impacts on the poor in marginal rural areas.
This research is exploring practical ways in which citizens in low income countries can hold their local leaders to account for their performance in delivering basic services and in reducing poverty.
The project aims to re-think conventional assumptions and offer new insights into the determinants of urban violence, including in particular identifying context-specific circumstances under which everyday urban conflict becomes violent.
Embedding poor people's voices in local governance: participation and political empowerment in India
Principal Investigator: Glyn Owain Williams. Lead Organisation: University of Sheffied
Decentralisation and the changing geographies of political marginalisation in Kerala
The politics of defining and alleviating poverty: State strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala
The disciplining effects of impact evaluation practices: negotiating the pressures of impact within an ESRC-DFID project
Performing Participatory Citizenship - Politics and Power in Kerala'sKudumbashreeProgramme
