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Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
The conflict in Algeria has been about peoples' efforts to make sense of their identities, gain control over their lives and the direction of their society. In Algeria, post-colonial conflict has taken violent forms. With its considerable reserves of oil and gas Algeria has attracted substantial amounts of foreign capital. Extraction and exploration proceeded uninterrupted even during the worst years of violence. The revenues from oil have enabled the authorities to remain in power in the face of considerable social upheaval and political dissent. Global economic players have participated in the extraction of Algeria's resources but there has been little interest in the fate of the Algerian people. In the first part of this paper I provide historical contextual material which leads into an account of the years of violence, attempts to build a peace process and the extension of the conflict with the uprising in Kabylie in recent years. The second part looks at economic and cultural global flows and their impact on the conflict, focusing on the growth of inequalities, the role of the diaspora, the new media and political Islam as a global cultural force.