Partners
Routine management of the project is overseen by CCDP in Geneva. The core research team includes a combination of academic researchers from MIT, the University of Utrecht and the Graduate Institute.
In addition, it is expected that the project would also include academic affiliates out of Columbia University and with research centres in areas of field research.
MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning features considerable breadth and depth of expertise on Development, Globalization, Governance, Health and the Environment, Human Rights, Industrialization, Policy and Law, Regional Economies, Technology, Transportation, Urban Issues, and Water and Sanitation. It also houses expertise and faculty focusing on Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Oceania, and Central and South America. Dr. Diane Davis, Dr. Daniel Esser and Topher McDougal are the key points of contact.
The Department of Anthropology of Utrecht University manages a long term research programme on Political Conflict, Cultural Trauma and Social Reconstruction (CTR). This programme includes the research activities of tenured staff and doctoral candidates. The CTR program is embedded in the UU priority research focus "Conflict and Human Rights" [] and in the national research school on development issues CERES. In addition, the political dimensions of urban poverty, exclusion and violence are an important focus of the joint program between the Department of Anthropology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Directorate of Quality and Effectiveness. This program is called "Poverty and (Good) Governance" and is part of the so-called IS Academy.
The programme has a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean; more recently research has also been initiated in Africa, Europe and Southern Asia.
Dr. Kees Koonings is the key point of contact.
The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) was created in the spring of 2008 as one of the new research entities of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
It focuses is on the factors and actors that are implicated in the production and reproduction of violence within and between societies and states, as well as on efforts at the international, state, and local levels to reduce violence and insecurity and enhance development and peacebuilding. In addition to participating in and supporting a variety of outreach initiatives such as training modules, lectures and briefings, and publications, the CCDP conducts ongoing research in a variety of streams including: a) peacebuilding and reconciliation; b) post-conflict transitions and state-building; c) armed violence and development; and d) multi-stakeholder initiatives and the politics of monitoring and evaluation. Oliver Jütersonke and Robert Muggah are the core partners.
