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From Terror to Justice: Promoting Accountability for Transnational Repression in South America...
research_project51Structural Estimation of Spatial Spillover Effects of Cash Transfers
research_project51Shining a light on 'under the radar' innovation in low income countries
research_impact51Intrahousehold decision-making, livelihoods, and household water choices in Kenya
research_project51Preparing for the future: youth/self-making in the waiting rooms of India’s economic reforms
research_project54'We should not take identity out of the question, we should question identity': Explorin...
research_project54'Quando Era Jovem…/When I was young…': An Intergenerational Oral History of Youth in Map...
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Christopher Adam
Professor of Development Economics
Aisha Ahmad
Research Student
Rakib Akhtar
Research Student
Jocelyn Alexander
Professor of Commonwealth Studies
Ruben Andersson
Professor of Social Anthropology
Ludovic Arnaud
Research Student
Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh
Departmental Lecturer in Development Economics
Jad Baghdadi
Research Student
Laura Ballerini
Research StudentPages
17 May, 2023Artist working on ODID research project locates plane used in secret renditions in South America
17 May, 2023Venice Architecture Biennale installation gives voice to migrant women in Johannesburg
20 Apr, 2023ODID student Khansa Maria awarded one of Pakistan’s highest honours for her disability activism
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- 25 May, 2023
'It allows us to completely retell that story as a transational and international endeavour'. Jocelyn Alexander discusses her work bringing together oral histories from the liberation movement in Zimbabwe on the BBC's Free Thinking
17 Apr, 2023'South Africa plans to deport thousands back to Zimbabwe'. Loren Landau speaks to The World
14 Apr, 2023'Finding Ukraine’s stolen children and bringing perpetrators to justice: lessons from Argentina'. Francesca Lessa writes for the Conversation
14 Apr, 2023'Finding Ukraine’s stolen children and bringing perpetrators to justice: lessons from Argentina'. Francesca Lessa writes for the Conversation
24 Mar, 2023'After Kanwariyas, Yogi Adityanath Goes Big On Navratri'. Nikita Sud is interviewed on NDTV's Left, Right and Centre to discuss Indian government spending on religious festivals
15 Mar, 2023'UK is "abandoning the right to asylum" with new immigration policy, says expert'. Alexander Betts is interviewed on CNN's Christiane Amanpour
08 Mar, 2023'Catching the Condor: Bringing to trial the generals who disappeared their enemies'. The Condor Trials by Francesca Lessa is reviewed in the TLS
02 Mar, 2023'Has the G20 meeting produced solutions or more divisions?'. Nikita Sud speaks to Al Jazeera's Inside Story about G20, India's presidency, and the southern push for multilateralism in a fragile, changing world
11 Jan, 2023'ASEAN resilience: A pillar for open and inclusive multilateralism'. Albert Sanghoon Park co-authors op-ed on the need for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to take a holistic approach to promoting resilience for the Jakarta Post
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